Call for attention - context handlers and validation procs

AdamB

I'm half finished with a plugin called "Snitch" which collates the time each plugin's Observers take so we can start pointing fingers.

Guidelines are fine, but witchhunts / naming and shaming has much better results.

thomthom

How do you manage to track other observers?
Can it be translated into validation procs and context handlers?

Chris Fullmer

@adamb said:

Guidelines are fine, but witchhunts / naming and shaming has much better results.

Woohoo!, let the games begin. I have a feeling I'm gonna score big!!!! (I hope its good to score big )

thomthom

thomthom

uh... both maybe

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honoluludesktop

Are the witches hunting, or are we hunting witches?-)

Don't know what the following has to do with this topic, but it seemed like the thing to do:-)

honoluludesktop

That's rich! The opening scene strikes a cord, it's me writing an app:-)

thomthom

I made a little sniffer script that will log the scripts that creates context handlers. Lets one easier inspect which scripts are adding context handlers.

I found xLine to be processing the whole selection. I'll be looking further into what scripts have inefficient context handlers. At the moment it takes many seconds for me when I right click a large set of selected entities.

(Removed - See first post)

Type TT.list_context_handlers to get a list of attached context handlers in the Ruby Console.

thomthom

I just updated the first post with the debug script - it now benchmarks the handlers, outputting the time they take to process to the Ruby Console.

thomthom

Sample output for a selection of about 100K entities:

### Context Handler ### 2D#loader.rb:181:inactivate' [...] 2D#.rb:44
0.0 seconds

Context Handler

bezier.rb:501 [...] bezier.rb:501
0.006 seconds

Context Handler

parametric.rb:320 [...] (eval):2696
0.0 seconds

Context Handler

(eval):103:in `load' [...] pb_loader.rb:9
0.0 seconds

Context Handler

tt_bitmap2mesh.rb:29 [...] tt_proxy_loader.rb:28
0.0 seconds

Context Handler

tt_image_opacity.rb:30 [...] tt_proxy_loader.rb:28
0.0 seconds

Context Handler

ui_manager.rb:261:in `build_ui' [...] tt_selection_toys.rb:240
0.004 seconds

Context Handler

xLine.rb:51 [...] xLine.rb:51
0.0 seconds

Context Handler

Lib6Plugin.rb:656:in `build_config_handlers' [...] ZLoader__FredoScale.rb:24
0.0 seconds

Context Handler

Lib6Plugin.rb:656:in `build_config_handlers' [...] ZLoader__OnSurface.rb:26
0.489 seconds

Context Handler

(eval):299:in `initialize' [...] dynamiccomponents.rb:38
0.0 seconds

Context Handler

webtextures_loader.rb:886 [...] webtextures.rb:22
0.0 seconds

Context Handler

bezierspline_main.rb:2413:in load_all_menus' [...] extensions.rb:36:in load'
5.657 seconds`

(Note I had modified xLine and Selection Toys prior to this test)

fredo6

@thomthom said:

Sample output for a selection of about 100K entities:

Context Handler

bezierspline_main.rb:2413:in load_all_menus' [...] extensions.rb:36:in load'
5.657 seconds[/ruby]

I fixed the one for BezierSpline, with an upgrade.
see http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=13563&p=100509#p100509

Fredo

thomthom

Pout

Reminds me of something simular I seem to have in big models when rightclicking a material.
The rightclick window just doesn't pop-up

thomthom

@pout said:

Reminds me of something simular I seem to have in big models when rightclicking a material.
The rightclick window just doesn't pop-up

Yea - I've noticed that too. Very annoying. But that menu isn't accessible to ruby plugins. So I think that one is on Google's shoulders.

Jim

@unknownuser said:

@thomthom said:

Sample output for a selection of about 100K entities:

Context Handler

bezierspline_main.rb:2413:in load_all_menus' [...] extensions.rb:36:in load'
5.657 seconds[/ruby]

I fixed the one for BezierSpline, with an upgrade.
see http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=13563&p=100509#p100509

Fredo

Bezierspline_main is still sort-of slow for me - it takes 8 seconds for the context menu to pop-up for 75,000 selected entities. (I admit to having a sub-standard pc.)

fredo6

@jim said:

Bezierspline_main is still sort-of slow for me - it takes 8 seconds for the context menu to pop-up for 75,000 selected entities. (I admit to having a sub-standard pc.)

Jim,

I made a change in the script.
see main post on BezierSpline

Is is better with this release

Thanks

Fredo

thomthom

mitcorb

Are you saying that each and every plugin is "polled" each time you wish to do something whether you "invoke" that/those plugins or not? If so, is that efficient? Keep in mind I don't know the terminology, and I certainly don't fully understand.

thomthom

@mitcorb said:

Are you saying that each and every plugin is "polled" each time you wish to do something whether you "invoke" that/those plugins or not? If so, is that efficient? Keep in mind I don't know the terminology, and I certainly don't fully understand.

Not every plugin, but when a plugin want to add a context menu a function is run - and if the plugin tried to evaluate the whole selection or do any processor expensive calculations in this function it'll delay the context menu.

mitcorb

Ok, that makes some sense, thanks. Evidently, the context menu is lower in priority?