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perf: Hot reload keeps the PDB document list of an assembly across domain reloads - #3242
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The PDB document index will keep each assembly's document list on disk so the first hot reload run after a domain reload can skip walking every sequence point. This adds the fmt1 directory under Library/UloopHotReload for those files.
The index now takes the directory its lists will be persisted to, and the tests point it at a per-test temp directory so a list left by an earlier test or domain cannot satisfy a LoadCount expectation. The new tests pin that a new index on the same directory answers from the persisted list, that a changed dll, an empty file, a truncated file and a file with another stamp make it walk the PDB again, and that a walk that throws leaves the persisted list untouched.
A domain reload dropped the in-memory lists, so the first hot reload run after a compile or a Play Mode reload walked every sequence point of the edited assembly again. Each list is now also written under Library/UloopHotReload/PdbDocuments with the dll's and the PDB's length, write time and MVID, and a new index reads it back when all five match. The walk happens before any write, so a PDB that cannot be read leaves no entry and no file; a missing, truncated or differently stamped file is treated as absent and rewritten after a fresh walk.
The truncated-file test stops at the line-count check, so it never reaches the per-line field checks. This test keeps the header, stamp, count and line count right and breaks only one hash, so an implementation that skipped the bad line and answered from the rest would fail.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PDB document index now persists per-assembly document lists and reuses them when their format and file stamps match. Tests cover reuse, invalidation, malformed cache files, unreadable PDBs, and isolated persistence directories. ChangesPDB document cache
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Index as HotReloadPdbDocumentIndex
participant Cache as Persisted document list
participant PDB as PDB
Index->>Cache: Read list and compare format and stamp
Cache-->>Index: Return valid document records
Index->>PDB: Walk sequence points when the list is unusable
PDB-->>Index: Return document records
Index->>Cache: Write stamped document list
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A cache that cannot be read or written can make hot reload document lookup fail, when it should fall back to walking the PDB. Treat cache read failures as misses and write failures as best-effort before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change is confined to project-local hot-reload data, with strong checks against accidental stale or incomplete results. However, cache failures can now block an otherwise valid reload. Filesystem trust and concurrent-access behavior are not fully established. Retained concerns
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| if (!_entries.TryGetValue(fullDllPath, out Entry entry) || !entry.Stamp.Equals(stamp)) | ||
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| string persistedPath = PersistedListPath(fullDllPath); | ||
| List<HotReloadPdbDocument> documents = TryReadPersistedList(persistedPath, stamp); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Keep cache I/O failures from aborting document lookup.
If the cache file is locked, TryReadPersistedList can throw before the PDB walk. If the persistence directory is unwritable, WritePersistedList throws after a successful walk but before _entries receives the documents. Either condition can prevent hot reload from using a readable DLL and PDB. Treat cache read failures as misses and cache write failures as best-effort failures. Continue to propagate errors from ReadDocuments.
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Treat failures from TryReadPersistedList as cache misses and failures from
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…lists Removing the line-count check, the empty-trailer check, the hash algorithm check, the odd-length hash check or the temp-file cleanup left every test passing. Each new test breaks the file in a way only one of those checks catches, and the blocked-path test pins that a failed move leaves no temp file.
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Summary
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On a large project (558 compiled assemblies, an edited assembly of about 10 MB with 1293 sources),
hot_reload_timing_detailshowed thesnapshot_group_statestep taking 0.8 to 1.2 s on the first run after a domain reload, and little on later runs. The PDB document index kept each assembly's document list only in static memory, so every domain reload (uloop compile, a Play Mode reload) dropped it and the next run read the dll and the PDB with Cecil and walked every type, method and sequence point again. This happened even when the edited assembly itself had not changed.Design
Library/UloopHotReload/PdbDocuments/fmt1/<assemblyName>.txt(UTF-8 without a BOM,\nline endings, TAB-separated fields, invariant numbers): a format header, a stamp line, then one line per document (hash algorithm, hash in hex, url).LoadCountkeeps its meaning (dll and PDB walked); the newPersistedLoadCountcounts lists read from a file.Behaviour change
Library/UloopHotReload/PdbDocuments/fmt1/. The list's content (which documents are found, their checksums) is unchanged.Verification
This PR targets an integration branch, so repository CI does not run; everything below ran locally.
uloop run-tests --filter-type regex, single-flight):HotReloadPdbDocumentIndexTests|HotReloadSourceSnapshotTests: 41/41. Red first: 6 of 35 failed before persistence existed (the five new tests and the new assertions in the unreadable-PDB test). The malformed-document-line test (added after a plan review) and the five tests added after the code review were each confirmed to fail under the mutation they target (m3, m5 to m9 below).HotReloadSiblingCompanionE2ETests|HotReloadIntroducedTypeNewFileSiblingE2ETests|HotReloadSourceSnapshotTests: 35/35 (real snapshots and PDBs through the shared index).scripts/check-file-length.sh: no finding.UnityCliLoop.CodeComplexity(CA1502, max 15): no finding.snapshot_group_stateof the first hot reload run after a domain reload that did not rebuildAssembly-CSharp(a comment added to an Editor-only script, thenuloop compile;Assembly-CSharp.dll's write time stayed the same across all four runs):Assembly-CSharpsnapshot_group_stateThe written file's first line is
uloop-pdb-documents 1.Mutations (applied one at a time, not committed; same regex as above):
NewIndexOnTheSameDirectory_AnswersFromThePersistedListWithoutReadingThePdb,DllWriteTimeChangedAfterTheListWasPersisted_...,PersistedFileEmpty_...,PersistedFileWithMalformedDocumentLine_...DllWriteTimeChangedAfterTheListWasPersisted_...,PersistedFileWithAnotherStamp_ReadsThePdb,PdbUnreadableAfterAListWasKept_..., and the three existing re-read tests (dll write time, PDB write time, MVID)PersistedFileWithMalformedDocumentLine_ReadsThePdb(the truncated-file test still passes: its line-count check stops first)PdbUnreadableAfterAListWasKept_...,NewIndexOnTheSameDirectory_...,DllWriteTimeChangedAfterTheListWasPersisted_...,PersistedFileEmpty_...,PersistedFileWithMalformedDocumentLine_...PersistedFileWithAnExtraDocumentLine_ReadsThePdbonlyPersistedFileWithTextAfterTheLastNewline_ReadsThePdbonlyPersistedDocumentLineWithAnUndefinedHashAlgorithm_ReadsThePdbonlyPersistedDocumentLineWithAnOddLengthHash_ReadsThePdbonlyPersistedListPathBlocked_ThrowsAndLeavesNoTempFileonlyNot covered
ReadAssemblyMvid, which reads the whole dll) is unchanged.DescribeSnapshotMissstill goes through the loader a second time (it does not read the PDB again).