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miversen33
Consider adding more profiling/debugging tools
Some ideas that have been floating in my head
- A way to flamegraph (like plenary) that is usable/interactable in the output window in import
- Add a way to trace memory usage during an import
- Overwrite all nested requires (during an import) with a masked import call so they can be tracked
- To clarify, this would be like, if you imported a module, anything that is "required" in that module would actually use import (and be marked as a dependency in import). This would allow you to better track dependencies of modules.
- Create a "replay" queue so reloading of a config can actually be done
- Track changes to anything in global scope so you can truly "revert" those changes on a reload
Note: I will not attempt to catch/intercept state writes to disk. That is just way too much work and not worth the effort of attempting to deal with.
Note Note: This is all just an idea bouncing in my head, this may end up being unceremoniously closed after I have had sleep and decided this was silly. Some of this may be developed. All of this may be developed. Something else entirely may be developed. Who knows. If you see this and think any of these items (or something else entirely) is useful, feel free to comment/react
I haven't had any urge to act on any of the above features. I posted on /r/neovim as well looking for feedback, however if I get none, I will probably just close this issue out and move this project into Maintenance mode. I'll give this a few days
I love the idea of flame graph and memory usage graphs, currently I just track it in task manager to debug plugins and its very annoying
@shaunsingh its worth calling out that I wouldn't (likely) be able to track live memory usage of a plugin, this would be purely during the module import process. IE, when you call require, this would track the maximum memory consumed during that call.
Note, I have absolutely no idea how to do this, I am just spit balling ideas :)
- Create a "replay" queue so reloading of a config can actually be done
- Track changes to anything in global scope so you can truly "revert" those changes on a reload
I've been looking for a plugin which does this, if it works (given how hard it seems to this properly) it would be very nice for debugging a config. It seems to be quite hard to do properly however.
- Create a "replay" queue so reloading of a config can actually be done
- Track changes to anything in global scope so you can truly "revert" those changes on a reload
I've been looking for a plugin which does this, if it works (given how hard it seems to this properly) it would be very nice for debugging a config. It seems to be quite hard to do properly however.
@sandersantema I've got a few ideas in mind but they range from
Oh god thats awful
to
Jesus that's invasive
So I haven't pursued it too much as I was unsure if the feature would be of interest to others. I'll ponder this and come back to this issue next weekend (ish?), hopefully with an idea of how to approach this. Knowing others are interested is the main goal here :)
