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digitalmars.D.ide - VisualD - Performance, Memory Usage, & Update Crash

reply Marcel <marcelpi97 gmail.com> writes:
Hello!
I've been using VisualD for about 3 months now and I've been 
facing several issues that are making it increasingly difficult 
to work on my projects.

1- I have a PC and a laptop. The former has Windows 10 installed 
and the latter has Windows 7: for some reason the "Check Now" 
button, for updating VisualD and the various compilers, causes 
Visual Studio to instantly crash with no error message, followed 
by a program restart. I've faced this issue only recently in my 
Windows 7 laptop.

2- DMD language server's memory usage can get quite high, causing 
all running applications to slow down dramatically. Additionally, 
once memory usage reaches 1~2GB it doesn't decrease, which makes 
me think its leaking memory.

3- Most operations that require semantic analysis are 
catastrophically slow. For example, say you want to find where a 
symbol is defined (the symbol is from the current solution): This 
operation can take around 2 MINUTES, and many times the search 
result is incorrect.

Are there any fixes for these issues?
Feb 10 2020
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 10/02/2020 11:47, Marcel wrote:
 Hello!
 I've been using VisualD for about 3 months now and I've been facing
 several issues that are making it increasingly difficult to work on my
 projects.
Sorry to hear that.
 
 1- I have a PC and a laptop. The former has Windows 10 installed and the
 latter has Windows 7: for some reason the "Check Now" button, for
 updating VisualD and the various compilers, causes Visual Studio to
 instantly crash with no error message, followed by a program restart.
 I've faced this issue only recently in my Windows 7 laptop.
I haven't tried to run Visual D in Windows 7 in a while, maybe the update mechanism has a problem there. What version of VS are you using? Are there crash dumps in %APPDATA%\Local\CrashDumps that can be analyzed?
 
 2- DMD language server's memory usage can get quite high, causing all
 running applications to slow down dramatically. Additionally, once
 memory usage reaches 1~2GB it doesn't decrease, which makes me think its
 leaking memory.
Are you using the "experimental DMD based parsing engine" that came with 0.51? This is known to leak memory (it is based on the dmd compiler frontend which is built for infinite memory, i.e. it makes it hard to collect unused memory). I'm gradually trying to fix these leaks. (to the extent of what its GC can do). In my experience it uses less memory than the compiler does.
 
 3- Most operations that require semantic analysis are catastrophically
 slow. For example, say you want to find where a symbol is defined (the
 symbol is from the current solution): This operation can take around 2
 MINUTES, and many times the search result is incorrect.
This makes me suspect that you are using the standard "legacy" engine, though I don't remember waiting minutes for completions (which is usually the longest operation - especially if UFCS and mixin expansions are enabled). The dmd based semantic engine is much faster, but unfortunately code completion isn't yet very usable. Symbol lookup is pretty good, but might need some extra work for templates as these might not be analyzed by the compiler.
 
 Are there any fixes for these issues?
More specific bug reports can help to pinpoint the actual problems. You can report them at https://issues.dlang.org/ for component visuald.
Feb 10 2020
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 10/02/2020 19:54, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
 1- I have a PC and a laptop. The former has Windows 10 installed and the
 latter has Windows 7: for some reason the "Check Now" button, for
 updating VisualD and the various compilers, causes Visual Studio to
 instantly crash with no error message, followed by a program restart.
 I've faced this issue only recently in my Windows 7 laptop.
I haven't tried to run Visual D in Windows 7 in a while, maybe the update mechanism has a problem there. What version of VS are you using?
I got hold of a Windows 7 VM and could reproduce the crash: it happens due to unexpected problems with https-requests. The dmd download is still using http and works for me. I can avoid the crashes (showing an error in the status bar instead), but I haven't found a solution yet for WinHttp not allowing the secure connection.
Feb 11 2020
parent reply Marcel <marcelpi97 gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 11 February 2020 at 22:22:28 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
 On 10/02/2020 19:54, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
 1- I have a PC and a laptop. The former has Windows 10 
 installed and the latter has Windows 7: for some reason the 
 "Check Now" button, for updating VisualD and the various 
 compilers, causes Visual Studio to instantly crash with no 
 error message, followed by a program restart. I've faced this 
 issue only recently in my Windows 7 laptop.
I haven't tried to run Visual D in Windows 7 in a while, maybe the update mechanism has a problem there. What version of VS are you using?
I got hold of a Windows 7 VM and could reproduce the crash: it happens due to unexpected problems with https-requests. The dmd download is still using http and works for me. I can avoid the crashes (showing an error in the status bar instead), but I haven't found a solution yet for WinHttp not allowing the secure connection.
Hello! Yesterday I reinstalled VisualD and performance greatly improved, I suspect I had enabled both the UFCS and mixin sematic analysis options. I'm also glad you found the reason for the crash in Windows 7. By the way, can I contribute to VisualD in some way?
Feb 12 2020
parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 12/02/2020 21:52, Marcel wrote:
 On Tuesday, 11 February 2020 at 22:22:28 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
 On 10/02/2020 19:54, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
 1- I have a PC and a laptop. The former has Windows 10 installed and
 the latter has Windows 7: for some reason the "Check Now" button,
 for updating VisualD and the various compilers, causes Visual Studio
 to instantly crash with no error message, followed by a program
 restart. I've faced this issue only recently in my Windows 7 laptop.
I haven't tried to run Visual D in Windows 7 in a while, maybe the update mechanism has a problem there. What version of VS are you using?
I got hold of a Windows 7 VM and could reproduce the crash: it happens due to unexpected problems with https-requests. The dmd download is still using http and works for me. I can avoid the crashes (showing an error in the status bar instead), but I haven't found a solution yet for WinHttp not allowing the secure connection.
Hello! Yesterday I reinstalled VisualD and performance greatly improved, I suspect I had enabled both the UFCS and mixin sematic analysis options. I'm also glad you found the reason for the crash in Windows 7.
Yeah, that UFCS part can be really slow. That should not be an isssue with the DMD based engine.
 By the way, can I contribute to VisualD in some way?
The repository for the main component is here: https://github.com/dlang/visuald, but there are other components, too. See https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/BuildFromSource.html If you don't want to get your hands dirty on the code itself, reporting bugs at issues.dlang.org/ for component visuald or improving the documentation (see "Improve this page" links) is also welcome.
Feb 15 2020