Come usare
- Copia il comando e controlla il pacchetto prima di installarlo nel tuo ambiente agente.
- Controlla strumenti, credenziali e ambienti richiesti nel documento originale.
- Descrivi input e risultato desiderato; confronta l’output con le fonti.
npx skills add https://github.com/daveebbelaar/bama --skill performancePrima di iniziare
- L’installazione non include abbonamenti, quote API o accesso ai file.
- Stelle e installazioni indicano attività, non un test indipendente di qualità o sicurezza.
Contenuto dal repository con titoli, esempi, codice, tabelle, link e immagini preservati.
Performance
Fast means two numbers: the first frame after a key press shows in under 100 ms, and nothing on the main thread blocks for more than 50 ms. Every change in this skill starts and ends with a measurement, so you know it helped. Symptom-by-symptom fixes are in recipes.md. For video, audio, camera, Metal, or large image pipelines, also read gpu-media.md.
The loop
reproduce -> measure (release build) -> find the line -> fix -> measure again -> commit with the numbers- Reproduce. Write the exact steps, or add a probe command to the
debug bridge (test-mac-app skill) that runs the slow action and logs the time of each step.
- Measure the release build. Debug Swift is 3 to 10 times slower and
points at the wrong code.
- Find the line. Pick the tool for the symptom:
| Symptom | Tool |
|---|---|
| App freezes, spinning pointer | sample <App> 5, then read the main thread stack |
| Slow action | Time Profiler: xcrun xctrace record --template 'Time Profiler' --attach <App> --time-limit 10s |
| Short freezes while typing or dragging | --template 'Hangs' |
| Stutter while moving or animating | --template 'Animation Hitches' |
| Memory grows | footprint <App>, leaks <App>, --template 'Allocations' |
| Fan, battery | --template 'Energy Log', look for timers and polling |
Read traces as text, not in the Instruments GUI: see "Measuring" in recipes.md. Delete every .trace after reading. A trace stores the app's full environment, and an app opened from an agent's shell inherits that shell's tokens. Never commit or share one.
- Fix with the matching recipe.
- Measure again with the same steps. Put before and after in the
commit message: "Picker opens in 40 ms, was 600 ms".
The rules that fix most problems
- Main thread does UI only. File, network, database, image decoding,
Accessibility calls, and audio go elsewhere. A main-thread call that waits on another process (CoreAudio, AX) can freeze the app for minutes.
- Show first, work after. Put the window or panel on screen in the same
frame as the key press, then load. Never make the UI wait for the work.
- Let the GPU composite. Large images go in a
CALayeronce. Pointer
movement changes only small layers. Never redraw a full-screen picture per mouse event.
- Decode at display size. ImageIO thumbnails, cached in
NSCache. - Do not animate what must be fast. Search results and switchers
update in place.
- No polling without a reason. Timers get a tolerance and stop when
nothing on screen needs them.
Apple silicon notes
- Core Animation, Core Image (one shared
CIContext), Vision, and
AVFoundation already run on the GPU or the Neural Engine. Hand them the work instead of looping over pixels in Swift.
- Write Metal (
MTKView, compute shaders) only when a measurement shows
Core Animation or Core Image is too slow. Most apps never need it.
- Unified memory means a
CGImagefrom ScreenCaptureKit passes to a layer
without a copy. Keep it as a CGImage or IOSurface. Converting to NSImage and back costs copies.
Done when the slow action has a measured before and after, the after meets the two numbers at the top, and the commit message names both.
