Posts about NuGet
A story about slow NuGet package browsing
In Rider, we have integration tests which interact with api.nuget.org.
Also, we have an internal service which monitors the performance of these tests.
Two days ago, I noticed that some of these tests sometimes are running for too long.
For example, nuget_NuGetTest_shouldUpgradeVersionForDotNetCore usually takes around 10 sec.
However, in some cases, it takes around 110 sec, 210 sec, or 310 sec:
It looks very suspicious and increases the whole test suite duration. Also, our dashboard with performance degradations contains only such tests and some real degradations (which are introduced by the changes in our codebase) can go unnoticed. So, my colleagues and I decided to investigate it.
Read moreWhy is NuGet search in Rider so fast?
I'm the guy who develops the NuGet manager in Rider. It's not ready yet, there are some bugs here and there, but it already works pretty well. The feature which I am most proud of is smart and fast search:
Today I want to share with you some technical details about how it was implemented.
Read moreNuGet2 and a DirectorySeparatorChar bug
In Rider, we care a lot about performance. I like to improve the application responsiveness and do interesting optimizations all the time. Rider is already well-optimized, and it's often hard to make significant performance improvements, so usually I do micro-optimizations which do not have a very big impact on the whole application. However, sometimes it's possible to improve the speed of a feature 100 times with just a few lines of code.
Rider is based on ReSharper, so we have a lot of cool features out of the box. One of these features is Solution-Wide Analysis which lets you constantly keep track of issues in your solution. Sometimes, solution-wide analysis takes a lot of time to run because there are many files which should be analyzed. Of course, it works super fast on small and projects.
Let's talk about a performance bug (#RIDER-3742) that we recently had.
- Repro: Open Rider, create a new "ASP .NET MVC Application", enable solution wide-analysis.
- Expected: The analysis should take 1 second.
- Actual: The analysis takes 1 second on Windows and 2 minutes on Linux and MacOS.