Deserialization is inefficient

[smashwilson]

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Description

Tree-view startup and deserialization takes a fair chunk of time. It's possible we're triggering a synchronous directory walk of the project structure.

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[winstliu]

Yeah, pretty much:

tree-view/lib/directory.js

Line 354 in 7a4b60c

// Public: Perform a synchronous reload of the directory.

is called on every expanded directory, recursively.

[smashwilson]

😱