[fpc-pascal] BSON formatter

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 7 May 2020, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:

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>> On May 7, 2020, at 4:44 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> I'm not even sure BSON will be accepted for LSP.
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> I talked to them already and they're not keen to add extensions to the
> plugin so I'll probably give up on this route.  The spec from Microsoft
> doesn't say anything about this either so maybe it's a bottle neck others
> have hit.  Sending plain text is horribly stupid and Microsoft doesn't
> seem to be taking performance seriously.  If they want to improve
> performance there is other low hanging fruit but it requires Microsoft to
> extend the protocol.

At least partial updates to a file should be there.
Sending the whole file at essentially every few keystrokes is just braindead...

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> The amount of redundant information being sent around is ridiculous. 
> Mainly, the spec gives no way for the client to cache results and refer to
> them later in various requests.  We're literally sending around mega bytes
> of data for no reason whatsoever, except lazy programmers I guess.

Indeed.

I was doing some tests in VS Code with omnipascal; The Omnipascal LSP server process takes 100% cpu.
No surprises there....


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> Computers just keep getting slower and slower sometimes it feels...

Welcome to IT in 2020: 
waiting, staring at a wait cursor... And more waiting....  :-)

Like I said: 
This is probably one of the reasons for the current trend towards huge amounts of really small files.

Michael.