CodeModel Assertion after about 5500 declarations in one file

[Hamish Rodda]

Hi,

On Sunday 21 September 2008 01:09:33 David Nolden wrote:
> Yes, the reason is probably this:
> The item-repositories have a bucket-size limit of about 64 kb. Everything
> put into the repositories must fit into a bucket. However one item for a
> file with 5000 Declarations would have the size 5000 * 12 = 66000, so this
> is for sure the reason.
>
> This could with some work be worked around in the item-reposotory, by
> creating special bigger buckets for items that are larger then bucket-size,
> but that wouldn't change much about the bad performance while
> inserting/removing items. So I recommend just splitting that file up into
> multiple.
>
> Btw. this limit shouldn't be a problem for most languages, since the
> code-model only contains declarations that are put into the symbol-table,
> and I don't think I've ever seen a file with more then 5000
> function-declarations. :-)

Sure, but there is no reason why pretty much any language we plan to support 
couldn't have this problem with a large enough file, and then we will just get 
bug reports.  Do we really want to be putting workarounds into the language 
supports themselves?

Cheers,
Hamish.