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bradzacher opened this issue Jun 9, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #9892
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ESLint allows you to profile your lint run with the TIMING=1 env var 1. Alternately it provides the --stats flag to do a similar thing in a JSON form 2.

These flags are great debug tools for non-type-aware rules. But they're mostly useless for type-aware rules because types are computed lazily and cached. This means that the first type-aware rule that runs will bear the brunt of doing the "pre-cached" calculations and then folllowing rules mostly just read from the caches and do little work in comparison.

This can actually paint a misleading and harmful picture because people will read the times and think a particular rule is much slower than it is in reality and sometimes people will turn off a rule thinking it was the cause of slowness.

We should have an FAQ section about this so we can help inform people to not trust the output for type-aware rules.

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  1. https://eslint.org/docs/latest/extend/custom-rules#profile-rule-performance

  2. https://eslint.org/docs/latest/extend/stats

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