This PR significantly improves the performance of auto-completion by
optimizing individual requests by a factor of ~2 and by giving language
clients like VS Code the opportunity to reuse the state of previous
completion requests, thus greatly reducing the latency for the
auto-completion list to update when adding more characters to an
identifier.
In my testing:
- The latency of completing `C` in a file with `import Mathlib` was
reduced from ~1650ms to ~800ms
- The latency of completing `Cat` in a file with `import Mathlib` was
reduced from ~800ms to ~430ms
- The latency of completing dot notation was mostly unaffected
- Successive completions are now practically instant, e.g. if we were to
complete `C` and then type it out to `Cat`, before it would take roughly
~1650ms + ~800ms, whereas now there is only a significant latency for
completing `C` (~800ms) and the completion list is updated practically
instantly when typing out `Cat`.
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<summary>(Video) Auto-completion latency before this PR</summary>
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<summary>(Video) Auto-completion latency after this PR</summary>
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In detail, this PR makes the following changes:
- Set `isIncomplete` to `false` in non-synthetic completion responses so
that the client can re-use these completion states.
- Replace the server side fuzzy matching with a simple and fast check
that all characters in the identifier thus far are present in the same
order in the declaration to match against. There are some examples where
the simple and fast check yields a completion item that the fuzzy
matching would filter, but since VS Code filters the completion items
with its own fuzzy matching after that anyways, these extra completion
items are never actually displayed to the user.
- Remove all notions of scoring and sorting completion items from the
language server. We now rely entirely on the client to sort the
completion items as it sees fit. In my testing, the only significant
change as a result of this is that while the language server would
sometimes penalize namespaces with lots of components, VS Code instead
uses a strictly alphabetic order. Even before this change, we never
actually really prioritized local variables over global variables, so
the penalty wasn't very helpful in practice. We might add some small
form of local variable prioritization in the future, though.
- Remove the empty completion list hack that was introduced in #1885. It
does not appear to be necessary anymore.
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