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pkg/front_end/example/incremental_reload/compiler_with_invalidation.dart

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+// Copyright (c) 2017, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/// A wrapper on top of the [IncrementalKernelGenerator] that tracks
+/// file modifications between subsequent compilation requests and only
+/// invalidates those files that appear to be modified.
+library front_end.example.incremental_reload.compiler_with_invalidation;
+
+import 'dart:io';
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:convert' show JSON;
+
+import 'package:front_end/compiler_options.dart';
+import 'package:front_end/incremental_kernel_generator.dart';
+import 'package:front_end/src/incremental/file_byte_store.dart';
+import 'package:front_end/src/incremental/byte_store.dart';
+import 'package:kernel/ast.dart';
+import 'package:kernel/binary/limited_ast_to_binary.dart';
+
+/// Create an instance of an [IncrementalCompiler] to compile a program whose
+/// main entry point file is [entry]. This uses some default options
+/// for the location of the sdk and temporary folder to save intermediate
+/// results.
+// TODO(sigmund): make this example work outside of the SDK repo.
+Future<IncrementalCompiler> createIncrementalCompiler(String entry,
+    {bool persistent: true}) {
+  var entryUri = Uri.base.resolve(entry);
+  var dartVm = Uri.base.resolve(Platform.resolvedExecutable);
+  var sdkRoot = dartVm.resolve("patched_sdk/");
+  var options = new CompilerOptions()
+    ..sdkRoot = sdkRoot
+    ..packagesFileUri = Uri.base.resolve('.packages')
+    ..strongMode = false
+    ..dartLibraries = loadDartLibraries(sdkRoot)
+    ..byteStore = persistent
+        ? new FileByteStore('/tmp/ikg_cache')

[scheglov, 2017/06/07 01:04:42]

This will not work on Windows.

[Siggi Cherem (dart-lang), 2017/06/07 20:17:11]

Done.

+        : new MemoryByteStore();
+  return IncrementalCompiler.create(options, entryUri);
+}
+
+/// Reads the `libraries.json` file for an SDK to provide the location of the
+/// SDK files.
+// TODO(sigmund): this should be handled by package:front_end internally.
+Map<String, Uri> loadDartLibraries(Uri sdkRoot) {
+  var libraries = sdkRoot.resolve('lib/libraries.json');
+  var map =
+      JSON.decode(new File.fromUri(libraries).readAsStringSync())['libraries'];
+  var dartLibraries = <String, Uri>{};
+  map.forEach((k, v) => dartLibraries[k] = libraries.resolve(v));
+  return dartLibraries;
+}
+
+/// An incremental compiler that monitors file modifications on disk and
+/// invalidates only files that have been modified since the previous time the
+/// compiler was invoked.
+class IncrementalCompiler {
+  /// Underlying incremental compiler implementation.
+  IncrementalKernelGenerator _generator;
+
+  /// Last modification for each tracked input file.
+  Map<Uri, DateTime> lastModified = {};
+
+  /// Create an instance of [IncrementalCompiler].
+  static Future<IncrementalCompiler> create(
+      CompilerOptions options, Uri entryUri) async {
+    return new IncrementalCompiler._internal(
+        await IncrementalKernelGenerator.newInstance(options, entryUri));
+  }
+
+  IncrementalCompiler._internal(this._generator);
+
+  /// Callback for the [IncrementalKernelGenerator] to keep track of relevant
+  /// files.
+  Future _watch(Uri uri, bool used) {
+    if (used) {
+      if (lastModified[uri] == null) {
+        lastModified[uri] = new File.fromUri(uri).lastModifiedSync();

[scheglov, 2017/06/07 01:04:42]

??=

[Siggi Cherem (dart-lang), 2017/06/07 20:17:11]

Done.

+      }
+    } else {
+      lastModified.remove(uri);
+    }
+    return new Future.value(null);
+  }
+
+  /// How many files changed during the last call to [recompile].
+  int changed;
+
+  /// Time spent updating time-stamps from disk during the last call to
+  /// [recompile].
+  int invalidateTime;
+
+  /// Time actually spent compiling the code in the incremental compiler during
+  /// the last call to [recompile].
+  int compileTime;
+
+  /// Determine which files have been modified, and recompile the program
+  /// incrementally based on that information.
+  Future<Program> recompile() async {
+    changed = 0;
+    invalidateTime = 0;
+    compileTime = 0;
+
+    var invalidateTimer = new Stopwatch()..start();
+    for (var uri in lastModified.keys.toList()) {
+      var last = lastModified[uri];
+      var current = new File.fromUri(uri).lastModifiedSync();
+      if (last != current) {
+        lastModified[uri] = current;
+        _generator.invalidate(uri);
+        changed++;
+      }
+    }
+    invalidateTimer.stop();
+    invalidateTime = invalidateTimer.elapsedMilliseconds;
+    if (changed == 0 && lastModified.isNotEmpty) return null;
+
+    var compileTimer = new Stopwatch()..start();
+    var delta = await _generator.computeDelta(watch: _watch);
+    compileTimer.stop();
+    compileTime = compileTimer.elapsedMilliseconds;
+    var program = delta.newProgram;
+    return program;
+  }
+}
+
+/// The result of an incremental compile and metrics collected during the
+/// the compilation.
+class CompilationResult {
+  /// How many files were modified by the time we invoked the compiler again.
+  int changed = 0;
+
+  /// How many files are currently being tracked for modifications.
+  int totalFiles = 0;
+
+  /// How long it took to invalidate files that have been modified.
+  int invalidateTime = 0;
+
+  /// How long it took to build the incremental program.
+  int compileTime = 0;
+
+  /// How long it took to do the hot-reload in the VM.
+  int reloadTime = 0;
+
+  /// Whether we saw errors during compilation or reload.
+  bool errorSeen = false;
+
+  /// Error message when [errorSeen] is true.
+  String errorDetails;
+
+  /// The program that was generated by the incremental compiler.
+  Program program;
+}
+
+/// Request a recompile and possibly a reload, and gather timing metrics.
+Future<CompilationResult> rebuild(
+    IncrementalCompiler compiler, Uri outputUri) async {
+  var result = new CompilationResult();
+  try {
+    var program = result.program = await compiler.recompile();
+    if (program != null && !program.libraries.isEmpty) {
+      // TODO(sigmund): the incremental generator should set the main method
+      // directly.
+      var mainLib = program.libraries.last;
+      program.mainMethod =
+          mainLib.procedures.firstWhere((p) => p.name.name == 'main');
+      var sink = new File.fromUri(outputUri).openWrite();
+
+      // TODO(sigmund): should the incremental generator always filter these
+      // libraries instead?
+      new LimitedBinaryPrinter(
+              sink, (library) => library.importUri.scheme != 'dart')
+          .writeProgramFile(program);
+      await sink.close();
+    }
+  } catch (e, t) {
+    result.errorDetails = 'compilation error: $e, $t';
+    result.errorSeen = true;
+  }
+
+  result.changed = compiler.changed;
+  result.totalFiles = compiler.lastModified.length;
+  result.invalidateTime = compiler.invalidateTime;
+  result.compileTime = compiler.compileTime;
+  result.reloadTime = 0;
+  return result;
+}