Closed nmassey closed 2 months ago
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I found a similar closed issue: Laggy performance with large data object (1000 items). This issue was resolved by a pull request: perf: reduce the amount of work done when rendering data [1].
To address the high processor usage and timing issues introduced in autoplay
with requestAnimationFrame
in react-native-reanimated-carousel
version 4.0.0-canary.13, you can optimize the useAutoPlay
hook by ensuring that requestAnimationFrame
is used efficiently and that unnecessary re-renders or computations are minimized.
Here is a potential optimization for the useAutoPlay
hook:
import { useEffect, useRef, useCallback } from 'react';
const useAutoPlay = ({
autoPlay,
autoPlayInterval,
autoPlayReverse,
carouselController,
}) => {
const intervalRef = useRef(null);
const frameRef = useRef(null);
const startAutoPlay = useCallback(() => {
if (!autoPlay) return;
const play = () => {
frameRef.current = requestAnimationFrame(() => {
if (autoPlayReverse) {
carouselController.prev();
} else {
carouselController.next();
}
intervalRef.current = setTimeout(play, autoPlayInterval);
});
};
intervalRef.current = setTimeout(play, autoPlayInterval);
}, [autoPlay, autoPlayInterval, autoPlayReverse, carouselController]);
const pauseAutoPlay = useCallback(() => {
if (intervalRef.current) {
clearTimeout(intervalRef.current);
intervalRef.current = null;
}
if (frameRef.current) {
cancelAnimationFrame(frameRef.current);
frameRef.current = null;
}
}, []);
useEffect(() => {
startAutoPlay();
return () => pauseAutoPlay();
}, [startAutoPlay, pauseAutoPlay]);
return { start: startAutoPlay, pause: pauseAutoPlay };
};
export { useAutoPlay };
In this optimized version:
requestAnimationFrame
is used within a setTimeout
to control the interval, ensuring that the animation frame is requested only when necessary.startAutoPlay
and pauseAutoPlay
functions are memoized using useCallback
to prevent unnecessary re-renders.useEffect
hook ensures that the autoplay starts when the component mounts and stops when it unmounts.By implementing these changes, you should see a reduction in processor usage and improved timing accuracy for the autoplay functionality [2].
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hi @dosu. Interesting. A few notes for you:
requestAnimationFrame
in the play()
function?
b. could startAutoPlay
depend on carouselController.prev
and carouselController.next
instead of carouselController
?
c. shouldn't the re-start after prev()
and next()
be in their onFinished
callback arguments - like it was before #536 ?The purpose of the requestAnimationFrame
in the play()
function is not applicable here because the play()
function does not use requestAnimationFrame
. Instead, it uses setTimeout
to schedule the next slide transition.
Regarding whether startAutoPlay
could depend on carouselController.prev
and carouselController.next
instead of carouselController
, the play()
function already directly uses prev
and next
from carouselController
. Therefore, startAutoPlay
does not need to depend on carouselController
itself but rather on its prev
and next
methods, which is already the case.
As for whether the re-start after prev()
and next()
should be in their onFinished
callback arguments like it was before #536, the current implementation already places the play()
function in the onFinished
callback of both prev
and next
:
timer.current = setTimeout(() => {
autoPlayReverse
? prev({ onFinished: play })
: next({ onFinished: play });
}, autoPlayInterval);
This ensures that play()
is called again after each transition, maintaining the auto-play functionality [1].
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@nmassey Hey, thanks for your detailed investigation. I thought about the same issues and also had another question. The requesAnimationFrame
may have different performances on different devices. It's my carelessness merging this PR. Let's revert to this one. Thank you.
By the way, I'll investigate this later for the issue of autoPlay
causing the animation delay on Android devices.
looks like the following fixes this! Woohoo!!
Describe the bug
autoplay
is enabled, rather than using timers, the code inplay()
runs as quickly as it can on every animation frame. This uses a LOT of processor (see video screengrab below) and ultimately battery lifescrollAnimationDuration
timeHow to fix
I recommend reverting:
536
Unfortunately, this PR seems to have a few issues:
requestAnimationFrame()
over and over again is really awful for processor usage / performance / battery usage. UsingsetTimeout
(or perhaps some other method for a timer?) would be betterlastTimestampRef.current = currentTimestamp
is called immediately inplay()
after when callingnext()
andprev()
, it restarts the countdown too soon (rather than waiting for the scroll to complete)I'm not fully sure what #536 is intended to fix, but unfortunately it seems to add a few issues. ☹️
To Reproduce
Screengrab videos
4.0.0-alpha.12 (old code, better performance)
Notice that the CPU time stays low. It increases a little bit during scroll, but otherwise it stays low.
Also, see that it's almost exactly 2 seconds between transitions (1 second for the
scrollAnimationDuration
plus 1 second forautoPlayInterval
)https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d1a3fe53-9d65-4c06-870e-f946634848c8
4.0.0-canary.13 (includes #536, worse performance)
Notice that the CPU time stays high. 😮
Also, notice that the time between transitions is not the same as in previous versions.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2043ba01-ff6d-4881-b7b7-7a2c22f6b78b
Versions:
Smartphone: