{"id":3811,"date":"2024-05-02T16:42:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\/blog\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:02:28","slug":"visual-assist-2024-3-release-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\/blog\/visual-assist-2024-3-release-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Assist 2024.3 release post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Visual Assist update?! VA 2024.3 is headlined by a dramatic improvement to the performance of <\/span>Find References<\/span><\/i>. This release also features both a fix and an improvement related to <\/span>Move Implementation<\/span><\/i>. We also have some key features exiting their beta phase (try them out!). Lastly, performance for C# should be better than ever with key fixes rolling out in this release.<\/span><\/p>\n

Download the release<\/span><\/a> now from our website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Better find references results in multiple faster features<\/span><\/h2>\n

If you\u2019ve updated to at least <\/span>Visual Assist 2024.1<\/span><\/a>, you may have been enjoying the benefits of the significantly improved parser performance that cut initial parsing time fifteenfold. In this release, we\u2019ve added something even bigger: performance improvements not at startup, but all the time<\/span><\/p>\n

Find references<\/span><\/i><\/a>, the feature that looks for symbol usage within the current project or solution, has been greatly improved for performance and speed. But the Find References engine is used for many other common and key features in Visual Assist! Renaming finds references in order to rename them; implement methods finds methods in order to know which ones do and do not exist; and so forth. That means that this performance improvement applies to many key features and navigations; <\/span>Rename<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Change Signature<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Implement Methods<\/span><\/i> and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Visual Assist’s Find references window. Takes significantly less time to find all references in 2024.3.<\/p><\/div>\n

Test Results<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The development team ran a few tests to compare the performance of find references between the new Visual Assist version versus an older version of the same plugin. Furthermore, they also tested it against the performance of Visual Studio\u2019s default Find References.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The test was done on Unreal Engine 5.3 source code using Lyra game examples with two symbols: <\/span>TOptional <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>MakeBox<\/span><\/i> as the basis for which references are to be searched. The test was done using Visual Studio 2022 17.8 and Visual Assist 2024.3 & 2024.2. Time was measured from the start of Find References to all references found.<\/span><\/p>\n

The result of the tests are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

Setup 1 – TOptional:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nRun 1<\/b><\/td>\nRun 2<\/b><\/td>\nRun 3<\/b><\/td>\nAverage<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visual Assist 2024.3<\/span><\/td>\n5:11<\/span><\/td>\n4:25<\/span><\/td>\n4:17<\/span><\/td>\n4:37<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visual Assist 2024.2<\/span><\/td>\n14:27<\/span><\/td>\n18:02<\/span><\/td>\n13:12<\/span><\/td>\n15:13<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visual Studio 2022<\/span><\/td>\n38:26<\/span><\/td>\n*<\/span><\/td>\n*<\/span><\/td>\n38:26<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Setup Specs:AMD Ryzen 7, 7800X3D processor, Team T-Force Delta 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM, Crucial T700 Gen5 NVME M.2 SSD<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i>* Test timeout.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Setup 2 – MakeBox:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nRun 1<\/b><\/td>\nRun 2<\/b><\/td>\nRun 3<\/b><\/td>\nAverage<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visual Assist 2024.3<\/span><\/td>\n0:42<\/span><\/td>\n0:45<\/span><\/td>\n0:43<\/span><\/td>\n0:43<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visual Assist 2024.2<\/span><\/td>\n1:41<\/span><\/td>\n1:40<\/span><\/td>\n1:34<\/span><\/td>\n1:38<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visual Studio 2022<\/span><\/td>\n2:34<\/span><\/td>\n2:22<\/span><\/td>\n2:27<\/span><\/td>\n2:27<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Setup Specs:AMD Ryzen 7, 7800X3D processor, Team T-Force Delta 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM, Crucial T700 Gen5 NVME M.2 SSD<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

As one can surmise from the results, the latest update brings Visual Assist\u2019s symbol finding performance well above that of default Visual Studio\u2019s and other similar plugins. Further testing on other platforms will be undertaken. Please refer back to this page later for more testing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Exiting Beta: CUDA core development support & Move Class feature<\/span><\/h2>\n

Two VA features enter their stable phase and are now on general availability. If you have not tried these yet, we highly recommend trying them out as it provides a lot of usefulness that might not be readily apparent.<\/span><\/p>\n