move daemon services to backend isolate

The merged UI/platform thread on macOS (Flutter 3.41) freezes on any
synchronous work — file I/O, Process.run, even isolate spawning during
early frames. No timing workaround (Timer, addPostFrameCallback,
Future.delayed) was reliable.

Fix: spawn a backend isolate that owns the DaemonDispatcher, GitClient,
PqlClient, FilesService, EditorRegistry, and Toolchain resolution. The
main isolate stays free for rendering. Communication uses SendPort with
the existing IPC message protocol (IpcRequest/IpcResponse/IpcEvent) —
zero new serialization.

New files:
  backend.dart       — spawns isolate, manages SendPort/ReceivePort
  backend_entry.dart — isolate entry point, boots all services
  isolate_client.dart — replaces InProcessClient for production

Toolchain now exposes resolveToolchainPaths() as a top-level function
with self-contained PATH expansion (no module-level state that would
prevent isolate message passing).

ClideTestApp gains boot-sequence tests: compute(), Isolate.run(),
sequential Process.run, and the full resolve+exec chain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Jeroen Schweitzer
2026-04-26 13:53:33 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.6
parent 9fff157c9e
commit a89910dc36
9 changed files with 543 additions and 171 deletions
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@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ class KernelServices {
List<Locale> availableLocales = const [Locale('en', 'US')],
String? socketPath,
DaemonClient Function(Logger, DaemonBus)? daemonClientFactory,
DaemonClient? isolateClient,
bool autoStartDaemonClient = true,
Toolchain? toolchain,
}) async {
@@ -148,13 +149,14 @@ class KernelServices {
settings: settings,
toolchain: tc,
);
final ipc = daemonClientFactory != null
? daemonClientFactory(log, events)
: DaemonClient(
socketPath: socketPath ?? defaultSocketPath(),
log: log,
events: events,
);
final ipc = isolateClient
?? (daemonClientFactory != null
? daemonClientFactory(log, events)
: DaemonClient(
socketPath: socketPath ?? defaultSocketPath(),
log: log,
events: events,
));
final extensions = ExtensionManager(
log: log,
events: events,