[Feature Request] Add timing information to the tree view

[kirillosenkov]

[Feature Request] Add timing information to the tree view

[KirillOsenkov]

I have timing for how long tasks take, but yes, it'd be very useful to display more detailed timing stats.

[rahulpnath]

@KirillOsenkov Did you have anything specific in mind on how to go about this? I can pick this up

[KirillOsenkov]

Well, if you look how tasks display their duration grayed out in the node, maybe the same thing for targets and projects. Not sure how useful for projects since projects are built by request from other projects, so not sure how to calculate project exclusive vs. inclusive time.

Also I wanted to manufacture a Folder node at the root level (where we have DoubleWrites for example) and display like top 20 longest targets and top 20 longest tasks (in Message or Proxy node types). Sort of like performance summary view. I think this should be done by the build analyzer (after the actual build log is recorded).

This needs experimenting though.

[KirillOsenkov]

I've built a few features around timing.

See the description here:
https://github.com/KirillOsenkov/MSBuildStructuredLog/wiki/Timing-and-performance-data