This lets you visualize clangd's activity on different threads over time,
and understand critical paths of requests and object lifetimes.
The data produced can be visualized in Chrome (at chrome://tracing), or
in a standalone copy of catapult (http://github.com/catapult-project/catapult)
This patch consists of:
- a command line flag "-trace" that causes clangd to emit JSON trace data
- an API (in Trace.h) allowing clangd code to easily add events to the stream
- several initial uses of this API to capture JSON-RPC requests, builds, logs
Example result: https://photos.app.goo.gl/12L9swaz5REGQ1rm1
Caveats:
- JSON serialization is ad-hoc (isn't it everywhere?) so the API is limited to naming events rather than attaching arbitrary metadata. I'd like to fix this (I think we could use a JSON-object abstraction).
- The recording is very naive: events are written immediately by locking a mutex. Contention on the mutex might disturb performance.
- For now it just traces instants or spans on the current thread. There are other things that make sense to show (cross-thread flows, non-thread resources such as ASTs). But we have to start somewhere.
@sammccall PVS Studio is reporting a potential null dereference here: https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0771/ (Snippet 8)