VS Test - Results
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Well, yesterday I posted that I’m going to test the amount of times that VS is hanging on me. Here are the results (time is milleseconds):

TimeWasted

NumberOfTime_VS_Stalled

AvgTimeStalled

MaxTimeStalled

981577

8728

112

998

 

All in all, that is ~16 minutes in which VS was not operational. That doesn’t sound a lot, until you realize that those are not the real times . Those are just the times where my app manage to catch VS not pumping messages at all. Take into account that I purposely made it take measurements at large intervals, and that VS apperantely did pump messages every now and then when it looked hung in the UI, and you can begin to estimate just how much time was wasted.

More interesting is the number of time that it stalled. I’m only counting the waits that are human noticeable (over 0.2 seconds). If you will add just that together (0.2 sec * 8728 = ~30 Minutes) and add the time it waited, you’ll get a more respectable number.

Of course, this is not a good way to measure, just to be clear.

It just gives some very rough ideas about the problem. Oh, and today I wasn’t working very hard in the IDE, so most of the time it was idle.

I even tried to run without ReSharper, and the memory consumption went down noticeably, but the responsiveness of VS didn’t . After an hour of working without ReSharper I broke down and install it again. It is really the best thing out there.

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