PowerShell / PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer

Parallelize rules if possible

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Area - Engine Area - Performance Issue - Enhancement
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Description

Opening this generic issue while in a meeting with folks discussing PowerShell editor tooling.

@JamesWTruher believes that we are not parallelizing everything that we could be - the big one being rules execution. We should try to parallelize this as much as possible to get perf gains.

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Research direction

The issue names no file, test, or entry point; start by locating the rules-execution path in PSScriptAnalyzer and measuring its current performance. Determine which rule work can be parallelized safely, then verify the performance impact and analyzer behavior; done means the applicable rules execute in parallel with demonstrated gains.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
performance, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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