Soon coming: debugger performance improvements

[Erel]

The debugger manages two pipelines. The main one is flexible and slow and the second one is less flexible and almost as fast as release code.
Whenever possible* the fast pipeline is used. Up until now resumable subs were always executed in the slow pipeline as the fast pipeline haven't yet supported this feature.

With the next versions of B4J, B4A and B4i the fast pipeline will support resumable subs and there are also other debugger related improvements. The performance gain can be huge.

*possible means that there are no breakpoints in the sub and that the code is not "dirty".

 

[alwaysbusy]

Waw, this is like night and day!

 

[XbNnX_507]

Will it support Async Calls?

 

[Erel]

Not sure what you mean with async calls. The performance improvements do not change any existing features. They allow resumable subs (and some other cases) to run much faster.

 

[XbNnX_507]

Not sure what you mean with async call

i meant do we still need to use release mode to execute a process or task on another "thread". ( i'm aware of the dangers of this ). still i want to know.

 

[Erel]

i meant do we still need to use release mode to execute a process or task on another "thread"

Yes. There are currently no plans to support it as it is a mistake in 99% of the cases. You can start a new thread for further discussion.

 

[LucaMs]

Wow !

 

[iCAB]

Looking forward... it seems like a great upgrade!

 

[Erel]

Implemented in B4i as well. Beta version is planned to be released next week.

 

[LucaMs]

Adesso corre troppo; rallentalo!

[Written deliberately only in Italian]

 

[Beja]

Adesso corre troppo; rallentalo!

[Written deliberately only in Italian]

Yeah, it's said that people when extremely happy or extremely angry they fall into their native language to express it!!

 

[ilan]

Will it also improove other libraries performance in debug mode?

Like iSpritekit is running with very low framerate in debug mode.

Thanx

 

[Erel]

Will it also improove other libraries performance in debug mode?

The libraries code itself runs at the same speed in both modes as it is already compiled.

The new optimization is related to resumable subs. If you are using resumable subs in your code then it will run faster.