Description

On our project of 9877 source files (including libs), the IDE quickly consumes so much memory that it becomes hard to work with.

On my 32GB Apple M2, it will be using over 20GB of memory in under a minute. It then starts to slow down until common commands, like looking up a type definition can take over 30 seconds.

To Reproduce

This is not simple as our project is not open source but I believe it would be likely to happen on any sufficiently large project.

Expected behavior

The IDE should limit it's memory usage and commands should execute within a few seconds.

Additional context

From tinkering with the IDE, I have found that the forcing of the result in populateVolatileStateSTM and possibly populateVolatileStateSync as well, seems to be responsible. I will make a draft PR to explain in more detail.

I was also wondering if running each command on a new thread and setting allocation limits and/or a timeout for it might help by limiting the resources used by abnormally greedy requests.

PureScript version

0.15.15