Picker performance improvements

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/helix-term/src/ui/mod.rs b/helix-term/src/ui/mod.rs
index 011ad9ba..d46de2d3 100644
--- a/helix-term/src/ui/mod.rs
+++ b/helix-term/src/ui/mod.rs
@@ -98,7 +98,9 @@ pub fn regex_prompt(
 
 pub fn file_picker(root: PathBuf, config: &helix_view::editor::Config) -> FilePicker<PathBuf> {
     use ignore::{types::TypesBuilder, WalkBuilder};
-    use std::time;
+    use std::time::Instant;
+
+    let now = Instant::now();
 
     let mut walk_builder = WalkBuilder::new(&root);
     walk_builder
@@ -116,56 +118,44 @@ pub fn file_picker(root: PathBuf, config: &helix_view::editor::Config) -> FilePi
 
     // We want to exclude files that the editor can't handle yet
     let mut type_builder = TypesBuilder::new();
-
     type_builder
         .add(
             "compressed",
             "*.{zip,gz,bz2,zst,lzo,sz,tgz,tbz2,lz,lz4,lzma,lzo,z,Z,xz,7z,rar,cab}",
         )
-        // This shouldn't panic as the above is static, but if it ever
-        // is changed and becomes invalid it will catch here rather than
-        // being unnoticed.
         .expect("Invalid type definition");
     type_builder.negate("all");
-
-    if let Ok(excluded_types) = type_builder.build() {
-        walk_builder.types(excluded_types);
-    }
+    let excluded_types = type_builder
+        .build()
+        .expect("failed to build excluded_types");
+    walk_builder.types(excluded_types);
 
     // We want files along with their modification date for sorting
     let files = walk_builder.build().filter_map(|entry| {
         let entry = entry.ok()?;
-        // Path::is_dir() traverses symlinks, so we use it over DirEntry::is_dir
-        if entry.path().is_dir() {
+
+        // This is faster than entry.path().is_dir() since it uses cached fs::Metadata fetched by ignore/walkdir
+        let is_dir = entry.file_type().map(|ft| ft.is_dir()).unwrap_or(false);
+
+        if is_dir {
             // Will give a false positive if metadata cannot be read (eg. permission error)
             return None;
         }
 
-        let time = entry.metadata().map_or(time::UNIX_EPOCH, |metadata| {
-            metadata
-                .accessed()
-                .or_else(|_| metadata.modified())
-                .or_else(|_| metadata.created())
-                .unwrap_or(time::UNIX_EPOCH)
-        });
-
-        Some((entry.into_path(), time))
+        Some(entry.into_path())
     });
 
     // Cap the number of files if we aren't in a git project, preventing
     // hangs when using the picker in your home directory
-    let mut files: Vec<_> = if root.join(".git").is_dir() {
+    let files: Vec<_> = if root.join(".git").is_dir() {
         files.collect()
     } else {
-        const MAX: usize = 8192;
+        // const MAX: usize = 8192;
+        const MAX: usize = 100_000;
         files.take(MAX).collect()
     };
 
-    // Most recently modified first
-    files.sort_by_key(|file| std::cmp::Reverse(file.1));
-
-    // Strip the time data so we can send just the paths to the FilePicker
-    let files = files.into_iter().map(|(path, _)| path).collect();
+    log::debug!("file_picker init {:?}", Instant::now().duration_since(now));
 
     FilePicker::new(
         files,