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Positron on Workbench: Include extensions as compiled artifacts

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area: workbench performance
Dominant language
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Description

System details:

Positron and OS details:

Positron Version: 2024.11.0 build 140
Code - OSS Version: 1.93.0
Commit: e0d844b031f95acbf89f234a2cce2af9b6721f6c
Date: 2024-10-31T14:13:54.986Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Interpreter details:

Python 3.12.0

Describe the issue:

Copying Positron session components on Workbench is a bit slow because many extensions include source files. We should compile them to reduce the total number of files.

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Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by locating the extension packaging and Workbench artifact-copy entry points, then identify how extensions containing source files are assembled; done means the relevant extensions are compiled into artifacts and Workbench session copying uses them with fewer files.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
build-system, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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