Hi, I noticed some old code, unused code path, old coding pratices in FDB and more important, it is very slow relative to the FB debugging experience (FDB: 1mn30s FB: 8s on my large company app to stop at the 1st breakpoint set in my runtime module), after a talk with Alexander and having dug into the code and done some experiments, I would conclude the waitForMetaData() function is not needed anymore, this function basically was waiting until each swf was loading info.isPopulated() up to 80 * 250ms = ~20s to be sure the metadata of the Function infos have been processed, from my experiements, there's no needs anymore for such a wait, somewhere else in the code, I can read, "if we are a avm+ engine then we don't wait for the swd to load" and "added by mmorearty on 9/5/05 for RSL debugging" in DManager.java when getting the Message DMessage.InSwfInfo it considers the swf is completely loaded info.setPopulated();
I don't pretend to understand everything in those classes but my guesses meet my experiments. Now, the waiting time in FDB / IntelliJ is the same than in FB, meaning divided by more than 11 in my case. Does someone know more about the player mechanism to populate the Function metadatas ? I'm about to clean my changes, open a ticket and propose this modified FDB for testing, any objections ? Thanks, Frédéric THOMAS
