translationCore slowdowns on Mac Arm

[PhotoNomad0]

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User Story

Observation:

• I am seeing a serious slowdown on my ARM based macbooks, that I am trying to understand. The biggest slowdown I see is when I am editing project details, and typing in text.

  • On older M1 MacbookPro I see a delay of about two seconds between when I type a character and when it appears on the screen.
  • On newer Macbook with the M1-Pro the delay is about 5 seconds.
  • But on 2015 Intel based Macbook I do not see delays typing. Also on my Windows laptop I do not see delays.
  • Tried running on Macbook in a Monterey VM, but did not see slowdown
  • Got feedback from someone using an M2 Mac running Ventura that they are not seeing a slowdown.

• When I try tC 3.4, I also see the delays - so I don't think it is a tC 3.5 regressions.

Questions

• Could it be a compatibility problem with a MacOS Ventura update?

  • I have tried updating Electronite to see if that fixes the issue. I have been able to build Electronite v23.3.10 - but when I test it on Mac, it does not seem to help the problem. There is v24.4.6, but I cannot get it to build on any platform - there seem to be some build dependencies that need to be updated.

• is there a race condition that is exacerbated faster machines?

• is it AV issue?

Observations:

• Seeing CPU usage on BDLDaemon jump up during App usage. BitDefender AV issue?
  • goes to 7% on keyboard entry in project details editor
  • goes to as high as 38% on when select to edit project details
  • goes as high as 45% when select to open a project
  • added BitDefender protection exemptions for the tCore apps, and in anti-ransomware/Application Access selecting allow for the apps.
  • disabling BitDefender Shield in Preferences did not help, but still suspicious
  • doing full system scan in BitDefender didn't help.

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[PhotoNomad0]

Quirking this one. Because it cannot be reproduced on someone else's computer. I could not determine what was causing the trouble on my Mac. Tried uninstalling bitdefender, but that did not help. Discovered when I created a new user account that I did not see any slowdowns. Suspect it is some old application or configuration that is causing the trouble. But I have a work-around.