Just a couple of curiosity questions, really:
With the plugins now being run in a different process from the main editor, there must be inter-process comms used to ship data to and from the main process. Does this noticeably slow things down, for instance, a plugin that does bulk text manipulation on a file?
Out of curiosity, what form of inter-process comms is being used? TCP, named pipes (Windows), something else?
I have a word-wrapping plugin, which does a significant amount of view.line/view.substr tomfoolery. I did a timing test on a very large file to see if there was any difference. It actually ran about 5% faster on ST3!
In the announcement thread, Jon mentioned that it uses shared memory to communicate between the processes.
S3 now caches chunks of text, so the perf improvements you’re seeing probably come from there.
Wow, that’s cool. Ah, I see the thread now: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10780&start=30#p42430 – shared memory. I guess that means memory-mapped files?
I’d love to know more about how this inter-process plugin system is designed. Was it based on Chrome’s multi-process plugin architecture?