Looking for faster refresh speeds

[rod7760]

Hi all,

I'm currently working on adding support for another RTOS in this plugin. One thing that has been bothering me is I feel like refreshes could be faster. I attached an example of the refresh on threadx. However, I've noticed with a large amounts of processes, the refresh can get very slow. (I observed this in another RTOS, but I am using ThreadX for discussion. The ThreadX implementation is very similar to my WIP)

   public refresh(frameId: number): Promise<void> {
           ...
           section(this.threadCreatedCount, (n) => this.getThreadInfo(n, frameId), 'threads'),
            section(this.semaphoreCreatedCount, (n) => this.getSemaphoreInfo(n, frameId), 'semaphores'),
            section(this.mutexCreatedCount, (n) => this.getMutexInfo(n, frameId), 'mutexes'),
            section(this.bytePoolCreatedCount, (n) => this.getBytePoolInfo(n, frameId), 'byte pools'),
            ...
}

The implementation essentially loops through all the threads, sempahores, pools, etc. and creates typescript objects out of them.

 private async getThreadInfo(numThreads: number, frameId: number): Promise<void> {
        const threads: RTOSCommon.RTOSThreadInfo[] = [];

        const current = (await this.getExprVal('_tx_thread_current_ptr', frameId)) ?? undefined;
        let address = (await this.getExprVal('_tx_thread_created_ptr', frameId)) ?? '';

        let thread: RTOSCommon.RTOSStrToValueMap | undefined = await this.getExprValChildrenObj(
            '_tx_thread_created_ptr',
            frameId,
        );

        for (let i = 0; i < numThreads && thread !== undefined; i++) {
            const name = this.stringFromCharPointer(thread['tx_thread_name']?.val);
            ...

If you have any ideas and thoughts on this, I would love to hear them.

reload-threadx.mp4

[rod7760]

@raphaelmeyer Thank you for your Threadx implementation! Do you have any thoughts on this? If not no worries. I may be trying to optimize something that isn't really feasible.