Acceptable linter execution time

[Ingramz]

Let me make myself clear first: I don't have any issues with existing linters. I'm only trying to implement one of my own.

Since AtomLinter has already a bunch of plugins for supporting different tools, it would be interesting to know how do the linters stack up against eachother when it comes to execution time. I understand that some linters are more feature-packed then others and some languages are more difficult to parse than the others. But as a small survey I would want to know what kind of speed do you consider as acceptable? Notable examples or any clever solutions applied for performance reasons would be great too.

I've tried some of the linters and when trying them both on smaller and larger files (up to 5000 lines of code), my observation is that they happened all to have execution time of under a second - some consistently faster than others though.

Also I think there should be a feature in "lint debug" that would give some feedback regarding how long the execution of that process roughly took, for time being I hacked two new Date().getTime() statements between the process execution but I'm sure there are more elegant ways to achieve this.

What are your thoughts?

[dmnd]

Seems like a reasonable idea to me 👍

[batjko]

I think it's a reasonable idea for any and all packages. That kind of statistic would be helpful for developers, even just to remind and motivate them to give consideration to performance.