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perf(desktop): the remote editor list appears in 62 ms instead of 2.5 s (17 editors, 58 PATH entries, Windows) - #31033
probeRemoteEditors (apps/desktop/src/ipc/methods/window.ts) probes the 17 remote-capable editors one after another. Each resolveEditorCommand call stats every PATH entry x PATHEXT candidate again, because the handler does not provide the PathDirectoryListings cache that the server's resolveAvailableEditors already uses. No process is spawned; it is pure stat work (about 1,368 stats per missing editor with 57 PATH entries).
The renderer shows only the ["vscode"] fallback until the probe returns, so in a remote environment the Cursor, Zed and JetBrains entries show up late. On this PC (Windows 11, 17 editors, 58 PATH entries, only VS Code installed) the probe took a median 2,478 ms.
Change
Run the probes inside the existing withPathDirectoryListings, so each PATH directory is listed once per probe and candidates absent from the listing are skipped.
Probe with Effect.forEach at concurrency 8. The result is filtered by index over REMOTE_CAPABLE_EDITOR_IDS, so the order is the same as the old serial loop.
Two tests in window.test.ts: the result and order equal a serial, uncached scan on a fake PATH; and the probe makes fewer than half as many stat calls as the uncached scan.
Scope and approval
Not covered by an approved issue or Ideas discussion; none exists. I am relying on the "very small, focused fix" route in CONTRIBUTING (#prior-approval), and that is an argument, not an approval. The change is one handler, no contract, UI or default change, and no new cache design: it reuses the server's cache the same way. It is a performance fix, not a bug fix, so a maintainer may reasonably want a discussion first; I will open one if asked.
Behaviour differences, all of them: (1) listing validity is the directory mtime, re-checked on each lookup, the same guarantee the server path already has; a stale hit would need a directory to change without its mtime changing during one probe. (2) Up to 8 editors are probed at once, so the libuv pool is busier for a short time (the measured burst was shorter, not longer). (3) Result order is unchanged. Not touched: the 30 s command-resolution cache.
Verification
Tests (Node 26.12.1): window.test.ts 10 passed, 1 skipped (the skip is pre-existing). With the source change reverted, the stat-count test fails (596 stats against a limit of 298); the order test passes on old code too, as expected for a behaviour-preserving change.
vp run typecheck in apps/desktop, vp lint and vp fmt --check on both files: clean. The pre-commit hook (fmt, lint, knip) passed.
Timing: the real handlers (before = main's window.ts, after = this change) on this PC's real PATH, each run with a fresh unique PATH entry so the 30 s resolution cache cannot help, 12 alternating runs, timing lock held. before median 2,478 ms (min 2,285, max 2,752); after median 62.5 ms (min 53.1, max 70.2). Both returned vscode in all 24 runs. Raw rows and harness: https://gist.github.com/Pyseph/58106e452aa492a227d471ea33beea72 (raw.jsonl, window.bench.test.ts). CPU load was 74% at the start, so absolute numbers are noisy. An earlier replay with the shared code gave 1,369 -> 44 ms (v-editors-raw.jsonl in the same gist).
Not checked
Linux and macOS have no PATHEXT, so the listings don't reduce stat calls there. CI's Linux run of the test's fake PATH made 156 stats with them and 147 without. The gain on those platforms is only the parallel probes, and it's unmeasured. The stat comparison in the test is therefore Windows-only, and every platform checks that each PATH directory is read at most once.
No end-to-end Electron run and no recorded session, so the visible delay in the picker comes from reading OpenInPicker, not from a recording.
Electron's merged shell-env PATH may differ from this process PATH. Only VS Code is installed here, so JetBrains directory-reading branches ran on absent roots; a machine with many JetBrains IDEs is unmeasured. macOS and Linux were not measured (the tests are written for both but ran on Windows only).
Effect on backend readiness at startup is unmeasured.
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Remote-editor discovery now uses bounded parallel lookups and a per-probe directory cache while preserving editor ordering. The change is limited to discovery performance, with no product-default or persistent-data changes in the assessed diff.
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The stat-count assertion only holds on Windows, where each missing editor stats every PATH entry x PATHEXT candidate; on Linux there is no PATHEXT and CI saw 156 stats with the listings against 147 without. The test now checks that each PATH directory is read at most once everywhere, and keeps the stat comparison for Windows.
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Walkthrough
probeRemoteEditors resolves remote-capable editors concurrently, caches PATH directory listings, and preserves editor ID order. Tests compare its results and ordering with a serial scan and check directory reads and, on Windows, candidate-stat counts.
Changes: Remote editor probing
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Concurrent probing and validation apps/desktop/src/ipc/methods/window.ts, apps/desktop/src/ipc/methods/window.test.ts
probeRemoteEditors checks editors with concurrency capped at 8 and caches PATH directory listings. It preserves the original editor ID order. Tests compare results and ordering with a serial scan, check that each PATH directory is read at most once, and on Windows verify fewer than half as many candidate stats.
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Minor · Pin the host-independent part of the editor expectation in window.test.ts. · window.test.ts:467
apps/desktop/src/ipc/methods/window.test.ts:467 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Pin the host-independent part of the editor expectation in window.test.ts.
resolveEditorCommand reads absolute application directories on macOS, and absolute system directories on Linux, that the fixture cannot redirect. On a macOS host with IntelliJ IDEA installed in /Applications, the reference result includes idea, so the assertion at line 467 fails. The parity check on the next line still passes because the probe reads the same host state.
Assert the fixture editors only. The parity assertion still compares the full probe result with the full reference.
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/ipc/methods/window.test.ts at line 467:
Update the editor expectation in the `resolveEditorCommand` test to compare only
fixture-controlled editor IDs, filtering the reference result against the
fixture editor list before asserting. Keep the following parity assertion
comparing the full `probed` and `reference` results.
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resolveEditorCommand also finds editors in app folders the fixture can't redirect, such as /Applications on macOS, so a fixed full list fails on hosts with such editors installed. The parity check still compares the full results.
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Problem
probeRemoteEditors(apps/desktop/src/ipc/methods/window.ts) probes the 17 remote-capable editors one after another. EachresolveEditorCommandcall stats every PATH entry x PATHEXT candidate again, because the handler does not provide thePathDirectoryListingscache that the server'sresolveAvailableEditorsalready uses. No process is spawned; it is purestatwork (about 1,368 stats per missing editor with 57 PATH entries).The renderer shows only the
["vscode"]fallback until the probe returns, so in a remote environment the Cursor, Zed and JetBrains entries show up late. On this PC (Windows 11, 17 editors, 58 PATH entries, only VS Code installed) the probe took a median 2,478 ms.Change
withPathDirectoryListings, so each PATH directory is listed once per probe and candidates absent from the listing are skipped.Effect.forEachat concurrency 8. The result is filtered by index overREMOTE_CAPABLE_EDITOR_IDS, so the order is the same as the old serial loop.statcalls as the uncached scan.Scope and approval
Not covered by an approved issue or Ideas discussion; none exists. I am relying on the "very small, focused fix" route in CONTRIBUTING (#prior-approval), and that is an argument, not an approval. The change is one handler, no contract, UI or default change, and no new cache design: it reuses the server's cache the same way. It is a performance fix, not a bug fix, so a maintainer may reasonably want a discussion first; I will open one if asked.
Behaviour differences, all of them: (1) listing validity is the directory mtime, re-checked on each lookup, the same guarantee the server path already has; a stale hit would need a directory to change without its mtime changing during one probe. (2) Up to 8 editors are probed at once, so the libuv pool is busier for a short time (the measured burst was shorter, not longer). (3) Result order is unchanged. Not touched: the 30 s command-resolution cache.
Verification
window.test.ts10 passed, 1 skipped (the skip is pre-existing). With the source change reverted, the stat-count test fails (596 stats against a limit of 298); the order test passes on old code too, as expected for a behaviour-preserving change.vp run typecheckin apps/desktop,vp lintandvp fmt --checkon both files: clean. The pre-commit hook (fmt, lint, knip) passed.vscodein all 24 runs. Raw rows and harness: https://gist.github.com/Pyseph/58106e452aa492a227d471ea33beea72 (raw.jsonl,window.bench.test.ts). CPU load was 74% at the start, so absolute numbers are noisy. An earlier replay with the shared code gave 1,369 -> 44 ms (v-editors-raw.jsonlin the same gist).Not checked
statcalls there. CI's Linux run of the test's fake PATH made 156 stats with them and 147 without. The gain on those platforms is only the parallel probes, and it's unmeasured. The stat comparison in the test is therefore Windows-only, and every platform checks that each PATH directory is read at most once.Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).