Joshua BarrettoI made project-wide search in my text editor asynchronous so results stream in from worker threads without blocking the main thread. However, searching is so fast that it finishes before the next frame renders, even on the largest project I work on, so it was entirely wasted effort.
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@jsbarretto it's not really a waste when the async I/O is likely the reason the frame was rendered on time
@natty The I/O isn't itself meaningly faster (workers still block on file access, so it's only asynchronous from the perspective of the main threads). But I was hoping to see the number of results tick up in a more satisfying way instead of appearing instantly. I realise that this is a silly thing to be sad about though
d@nny disc@ mc²@jsbarretto @natty local block i/o is not likely to receive significant benefit from non-blocking access
@jsbarretto @natty context switching can be pretty harmful and outside of extremely specialized interfaces there's no conception i've found that effectively asynchronizes this process