Issues when creating/removing/editing classes

[ylazy]

Hi,
When I create a new tab and save it as an empty .as file, I have to wait a long time (about 30 seconds or more) before code completion finishes loading and works again.

A similar problem occurs when I remove an .as file. Sometimes the issue is more serious: if the removed file contains errors, those errors remain in the PROBLEMS tab, and I have to restart VS Code to clear them.

If I edit multiple classes at once via search/replace, I have to wait several minutes. In this case, restarting the language server is faster.

I don’t think these are critical problems, but I’m building libraries and often create, remove, and edit many classes. In these situations, I end up coding without the help of code completion while waiting for it to load — and even snippets are unavailable during that time.

Please consider improving these behaviors if you think they are genuine issues.
Thank you!

[joshtynjala]

How many root folders with AS3 projects do you have added to your workspace?

[ylazy]

I've added 13 folders. Does the number of folders affect performance?

[joshtynjala]

Yes, the number of folders can affect performance. All folders share the same language server.

[ylazy]

Sorry. Do you mean root workspace folders in the .code-workspace file, or the source-path folder in the asconfig.json?
My project has one root workspace folder. And 13 source-path folders.

[joshtynjala]

I meant root workspace folders in the .code-workspace file. However, 13 source-path folders is significantly more than most projects use. I’m also curious how many .as files are contained within those folders.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of source path folders or the number of .as files could cause performance issues. It sounds like your project is much larger than I’ve ever worked on.

[ylazy]

There're about ~2000 .as files in 13 source-path folders. Several of them have 15-20k lines of code. Is that considered a lot?

[joshtynjala]

2000 files seems pretty reasonable to me. Perhaps larger than average, but not excessively so. However, I would say that 15k-20k lines of code is a lot.

For reference, the entire Flex SDK has two .as files with more than 10k lines of code. However, I think that there may be more ASDoc comments in those files than actual code, so that likely makes them a bit easier to parse.

My largest file in feathersui-starling is about 8400 lines, including ASDoc comments.