René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Feature Request: Parallel Analysis with Ray and Incremental Caching","articleBody":"**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**\nThe current implementation processes files sequentially, leading to slow analysis times for large Python codebases. Unchanged files are re-analyzed on every run, and minor code changes trigger full project re-analysis. These issues result in inefficiencies, especially for projects with hundreds or thousands of files.\n\n**Describe the solution you'd like**\nIntroduce Ray-based parallelization to leverage multiple CPU cores and potentially multiple machines. Add CLI options for controlling the number of processes:\n- `--use-ray`: Enable Ray-based parallel analysis.\n- `--nproc=%`: Specify the percentage of available CPU cores to use.\n- `--nproc=all`: Use all available CPU cores.\n\nFor incremental analysis, add a new argument:\n- `--file-name=\u003cfile\u003e`: Analyze only the specified file, leveraging cached results for unchanged files.\n\n**Describe alternatives you've considered**\n- **Threading/Multiprocessing**: Less scalable than Ray and does not support distributed computing.\n- **File-level caching only**: Would still re-analyze entire files when only one function changes.\n- **Simple timestamp-based caching**: Less reliable than content-based hashing for detecting changes.\n\n**Additional context**\nExpected performance improvements:\n- Significant speedup with Ray parallelization on multi-core systems.\n- Faster subsequent runs with incremental caching.\n- Efficient handling of minor code changes with SHA-based updates.\n\nImplementation should maintain backward compatibility and integrate with the existing cache directory structure.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/rahlk","@type":"Person","name":"rahlk"},"datePublished":"2025-07-16T00:54:36.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/16/codeanalyzer-python/issues/16"}