[cfe-dev] Tips for optimising libclang

[Tobias Grosser]

On 04/02/2013 08:47 PM, Miguel Guedes wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
>
> On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 19:45 +0200, Tobias Grosser wrote:
>> Three points:
>>
>> 1)
>>
>> When developing clang_complete, we noticed that
>> clang_parseTranslationUnit was not enough to initialize the
>> PrecompiledPreamble completely. Instead, we had to issue a reparse
>> between the initial parse and the codeComplete command. I never found
>> out if this was something we did wrong or something that libclang did
>> not get right.
>>
>
> Strange. I'm seeing the exact same behaviour you describe. As you say,
> only after parsing and then reparsing do subsequent TU reparsing calls
> finish dramatically quicker. However, creating the preamble is now
> taking ~2500ms BUT subsequent updates take in the order of 250-260ms.
> Still a bit too high though.

This largely depends on the machine. On my (fast) laptop, the 
clang_complete example file in examples/boost.cpp takes 0.046 seconds.

It would be really great to investigate this issue to get rid of the 
need to reparse.

Tobi