With this commit, worker processes will notify the master process about
the transformed files they are about to write to disk before starting
writing them.
In a subsequent commit, this will be used to allow ngcc to recover when
a worker process crashes in the middle of processing a task.
PR Close#36626
This commit enhances the `CompileFn`, which is used to process each
entry-point, to support running a passed-in callback (and wait for it to
complete) before proceeding with writing the transformed files to disk.
This functionality is currently not used. In a subsequent commit, it
will be used for passing info from worker processes to the master
process that will allow ngcc to recover when a worker process crashes in
the middle of processing a task.
PR Close#36626
The cached file-system was implemented to speed up ngcc
processing, but in reality most files are not accessed many times
and there is no noticeable degradation in speed by removing it.
Benchmarking `ngcc -l debug` for AIO on a local machine
gave a range of 196-236 seconds with the cache and 197-224
seconds without the cache.
Moreover, when running in parallel mode, ngcc has a separate
file cache for each process. This results in excess memory usage.
Notably the master process, which only does analysis of entry-points
holds on to up to 500Mb for AIO when using the cache compared to
only around 30Mb when not using the cache.
Finally, the file-system cache being incorrectly primed with file
contents before being processed has been the cause of a number
of bugs. For example https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/16860#issuecomment-614694269.
PR Close#36687
Moving the definition of the `onTaskCompleted` callback into `mainNgcc()`
allows it to be configured based on options passed in there more easily.
This will be the case when we want to configure whether to log or throw
an error for tasks that failed to be processed successfully.
This commit also creates two new folders and moves the code around a bit
to make it easier to navigate the code§:
* `execution/tasks`: specific helpers such as task completion handlers
* `execution/tasks/queues`: the `TaskQueue` implementations and helpers
PR Close#36083
`ngcc` supports both synchronous and asynchronous execution. The default
mode when using `ngcc` programmatically (which is how `@angular/cli` is
using it) is synchronous. When running `ngcc` from the command line
(i.e. via the `ivy-ngcc` script), it runs in async mode.
Previously, the work would be executed in the same way in both modes.
This commit improves the performance of `ngcc` in async mode by
processing tasks in parallel on multiple processes. It uses the Node.js
built-in [`cluster` module](https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html) to
launch a cluster of Node.js processes and take advantage of multi-core
systems.
Preliminary comparisons indicate a 1.8x to 2.6x speed improvement when
processing the angular.io app (apparently depending on the OS, number of
available cores, system load, etc.). Further investigation is needed to
better understand these numbers and identify potential areas of
improvement.
Inspired by/Based on @alxhub's prototype: alxhub/angular@cb631bdb1
Original design doc: https://hackmd.io/uYG9CJrFQZ-6FtKqpnYJAA?view
Jira issue: [FW-1460](https://angular-team.atlassian.net/browse/FW-1460)
PR Close#32427
