GLIMPS

VS Code extension used in the SoftVR user study (https://git.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SWS/softvr-user-study)

Installation

The following commands will create the VSIX package containing the extension:

npm install
vsce package

This results in a perf-debug-0.0.1.vsix inside the root folder. For installing the extension in VS Code use:

code --install-extension perf-debug-0.0.1.vsix

You may need to reload the VS Code window.

Usage

GLIMPS can only be used with the following three software systems.

• Example System: https://git.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/qb19zexe/perf-debug-config
• Density Converter: https://git.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/qb19zexe/density-converter.git
• Berkeley DB: https://git.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/qb19zexe/berkeley-db.git

Get Started

1. Clone one of the listed repositories.
2. Open the repository in VS Code.
3. Switch to the user-study branch.
4. Press Ctrl+Shift+P or F1 and select Perf Debug: Configuration Dialog
   

Known issues

The extension does not start on Ubuntu 21.10 and 22.04 (but 20.04 is fine) in combination with VS Code version 1.62+ (october 2021 and newer). When working on Ubuntu 21.10+, we recommend to install the VS Code version 1.61 (https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_61).