KDevelop 5 too slow?

[René J. V. Bertin]

René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> I also notice that the OP uses clang-4.0 . I wasn't even aware it was finally
> released, it wouldn't be a pre-release version built with assertions, would

FWIW, I just installed the official llvm.org 4.0 packages for Ubuntu 14.04 
(4.0~svn297204-1~exp1). Judging by the sheer install size they could well be 
built with assertions.

I rebuilt the KDevelop clang plugin against that version and I did a few quick 
comparisons running (hopefully) just the parser via the problem toolview's 
refresh button.

On a 1.6Gh Intel N3150 cpu off a ZFS pool running from a Seagate SSHD and using 
2 CPU threads for the parser (with the default 500ms delay), I observe

- in both cases it takes roughly 2.5s for the progress bar to appear after I 
click the refresh button
- the progress bar jumps from 0 to 100% after roughly 12s with clang 3.9 and 15s 
with clang 4.0
- in both cases the progress bar disappears after roughly 17.5s, possibly 
slightly later with clang 4.0

This is parsing the kclock.cpp file from github.com/RJVB/kclock.k5s .
KDevelop4 doesn't seem to like this project; it fails complains about 
KClockWidget class members; possibly as a result it takes a bit over 30s to 
(re)parse the entire file.

Neither are exactly fast of course, even for a Celeron-class CPU.

Would libclang allow parsing only a part of the active document, say the 
function in which an edit was made?

R.