[CB-13767] Huge performance issues moving from cordova 6.5 to 8 due to cordova-fetch

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-lib
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew Crites
• Created: 09/Jan/18 20:44
• Updated: 12/Feb/19 19:53
• Resolved: 08/Sep/18 14:07

Description

This is for a project with a wide variety of plugins ... about 25. This may be above average, but not extreme. I've updated the project from cordova 6.5 to cordova 8. Cordova 8 always uses cordova-fetch to install plugins, so I can't opt out. Before, I was not using cordova-fetch.

$ time npx cordova@6.5 platform add ios
  23.85s user 9.26s system 130% cpu 25.414 total

$ time npx cordova@8 platform add ios --nosave
  402.44s user 61.94s system 119% cpu 6:28.09 total

That takes over 15 times longer. --nosave was used since this is the default behavior for 6.5.

For subsequent installations using --save (or default) the performance is still like this.

Issue Links

• links to: Avoid reinstalling already installed plugins (cordova-fetch#24)