Performance improvements

[ilanbiala]

The package seems to be quite slow compared to other Atom packages. Is there anything that can be done about performance?

This package added 243ms to startup time.

[DanBrooker]

That does seem slow, could you screenshot the Timecop package screen?

[ilanbiala]

This isn't the same load, as evident by the different time.

[DanBrooker]

I don't think that is a typical load time.
My package load for file-icons is 8ms and activation is 33ms.

Does anyone else have similar load times?

[whitlockjc]

I see package load of 140ms and package activation of 71ms.

[whitlockjc]

After restarting the editor, I've reopened a few other projects and I've not see file-icons show up in the list.

[ear1grey]

Currently it takes mine 10x the time of other pieces (OSX 10.11.3 Atom 1.6.2) - is there a debug switch I can flip on?

[Alhadis]

Hrm, really? That's strange, because the package is hardly even taking 19ms to load for me...

And in Timecop:

[ear1grey]

I think I've tracked down the culprit - an intermittent DNS fault from my ISP may have been introducing the delay to the startup. Switching to Google's Public DNS (8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4) reduces startup to 13ms for me too, so possibly something to look at for async startup in the future, but in the mean time this may help someone.

[Alhadis]

Bizarre. Maybe the metrics package had something to do with it? It might've been trying to report the startup times or something...

[iovis]

It's taking 578ms to load for me (next one is 57ms). How should I debug this?

[Alhadis]

@iovis9 Is this happening on multiple reboots?

On first load, the package needs to compile the Less sheets if they've changed (which it will if there's been an update released).

(Note this delay won't happen in V2)

[iovis]

It's been happening over the course of at least 5 months.

[Alhadis]

What other packages do you have installed? Specs, operating system?

[iovis]

Dammit, I thought this repo was linter-php. I'm having worse problems with them.
A restart of the app now makes it load faster, you're right.

[Alhadis]

Well, that issue won't exist in V2 either way, which uses a config-driven approach instead of a CSS-driven one. :)