Re:Show HN: Sourcetrail – Visual Source Explorer Now Support...
by mmmrk on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:07PM
(#20011762)
Looks very interesting, but seems to be excruciatingly slow at indexing Python projects. Ran it on https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/tree/master/Lib/fontT... (~230 files) and it took 45 minutes while keeping all 16 cores of my Ryzen 1700 at full load, sometimes using ~16 GB of RAM. Exiting the application ends in a SEGV, but seemingly without consequences? Also, after moving the database files to a different folder and renaming the "source group", it now asks me run re-index everything. AAAARRRGHHH.
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Re:Show HN: Sourcetrail – Visual Source Explorer Now Support...
by egraether on Sunday May 26, 2019 @07:44AM
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Sourcetrail dev here. Thanks for the feedback!
Yes, Python indexing speed is still slow, mostly due to the underlying framework that needs a lot of time to resolve symbol names. We hope we can improve this.
The crash on closing was already reported: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/SourcetrailBugTracker/issue... I opened another issue to not inform about indexing when only renaming source groups: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/SourcetrailBugTracker/issue...