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Oni: Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim
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Performance: V8 snapshots #381

Open bryphe opened 7 years ago

bryphe commented 7 years ago

Atom had an interesting strategy for improving startup performance in their blog post here: http://blog.atom.io/2017/04/18/improving-startup-time.html

They are leveraging V8 snapshots to output a JS heap. This saves all the parsing and processing of JS, which is non-trivial as the bundle.js for this project gets larger.

There are some restrictions (V8 snapshots run in a bare V8 context), so it's important to have solid testing to ensure we aren't breaking anything in these cases.

bryphe commented 7 years ago

One possible avenue to help with #355, but improving the real startup performance.

bryphe commented 6 years ago

One suggestion that @bruchmann made on #1123 was leveraging electron-link to accomplish this. Would be interesting to see how straightforward this is to plugin to our infra/build.

bryphe commented 6 years ago

mksnapshot seems to be used as well