Significant hangs in Ghidra when making any tracked change

[xeniarose]

Description

binsync is basically unusable in my ghidra because changing anything while binsync is active freezes the whole ghidra UI for upwards of 3 seconds

I don't really have any information to provide besides that at the moment. I did some cursory investigation in the binsync and libbs source to try to figure out what is happening but I generally have no idea how I would run, like, a profiler or something to determine what is causing the lag. Pointers on that would be appreciated, and I can share the results of profiling if anyone knows how.

Steps to reproduce the bug

• install binsync for ghidra
• open a project and connect it to binsync
• try to rename anything

Environment

python 3.11
current libbs commit (0ce5c351cc81c1a0120f763aeba584fdb9dc2820)
current binsync commit (e67da5a)

Additional context

Ghidra version: 11.3.2

[mahaloz]

Ty for the report. @xeniarose are you on Linux or MacOS? It is poorly supported, but it should still be usable... so this is bad, lol.

The main issue is that binsync runs python2->python3 over a network to run in Ghidra. That also means right now that every change triggers a network packet locally on your machine. The ideal scenario is to get rid if this and either do Python3 native (binsync/libbs#148) or use Java. I haven't had the time to do that, though, since I don't actually use Ghidra much :(.

[xeniarose]

are you on Linux or MacOS?

linux

The ideal scenario is to get rid if this and either do Python3 native (binsync/libbs#148) or use Java. I haven't had the time to do that, though, since I don't actually use Ghidra much :(.

i was wondering if there were plans to switch to PyGhidra given that it's officially a part of ghidra now

in any case, if there's work needed on that PR i might be able to help

[mahaloz]

@xeniarose, any help is appreciated. I'll ping you in the other PR to see if you have any interest.