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Whitebrim / VSCode-PlaydateTemplate

This template will help you with autocompletion and running your code in simulator. Windows & Linux.
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Build Task Speed #5

Closed redmoe closed 2 years ago

redmoe commented 2 years ago

Hi there. Thank you for the program and tutorial! Was wondering if it'd be possible to speed up the task.json? Right now it's taking about 8 seconds to complete for me.

I notice it closes and then reopens the simulator, which seems to take a large chunk of the time. Would it be possible to have it check for an existing simulator and run the program from that one instead, and only open a new instance if there is none?

Also if there was a way improve the deleting of files? Right now that takes at least 2 seconds which seems excessive.

I'm personally looking into modifying mine and if I find an improvement will be sure to share, but was wondering if had any thoughts on the matter. Thanks!

kmcginn commented 2 years ago

I suspect a lot of the time is being taken up by whatever VS Code does to move between tasks. The actual commands themselves move pretty quickly.

I did notice that about a month after this template repo removed Orta's Playdate extension as a recommended extension, that extension was updated to include Windows support. When I run the build through that extension's command, it is a LOT faster. Maybe re-adding the extension as a suggestion and encouraging the use of that command could help?

Whitebrim commented 2 years ago

I'll try combine all build tasks into one PowerShell script

Whitebrim commented 2 years ago

@redmoe try this version please 1b115276492425cf9b649ed4613332c804db6b20

redmoe commented 2 years ago

Much better, thank you! Getting about 3 seconds to build. I've been using Nova in the interim which takes about a second, however grateful to have a pc option to work with. Thanks for the update!