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⚑ Optimize sequential file deletion in DownloadTask.ts#537

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⚑ Optimize sequential file deletion in DownloadTask.ts

πŸ’‘ What: Replaced the sequential await this.removeDirectory() loop in DownloadTask.ts with a concurrent approach using Promise.all().

🎯 Why: The previous implementation blocked on every single file deletion, slowing down cleanup times linearly with the number of files and directories in a structure.

πŸ“Š Measured Improvement: Using a local benchmarking script evaluating the same algorithmic structure with standard filesystem calls, to simulate the I/O bottleneck over a tree of 1000 files spread across 20 sub-directories alongside 50 root files:

  • Baseline (Sequential): ~330.41ms
  • Optimized (Concurrent): ~88.04ms
  • Improvement: ~73.35% faster directory tree deletion

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  • Performance
    • Optimized directory cleanup to run parts in parallel, reducing time for file deletions and speeding up file-management operations.
    • Users should notice faster cleanup and reduced delays during tasks that remove many files or directories.
    • Improves responsiveness for operations that manage large numbers of files.

πŸ’‘ What: Replaced the sequential `await this.removeDirectory()` loop in `DownloadTask.ts` with a concurrent approach using `Promise.all()`.
🎯 Why: The previous implementation blocked on every single file deletion, slowing down cleanup times linearly with the number of files and directories in a structure.
πŸ“Š Measured Improvement: Using a local bun benchmarking script with Node's fs layer to simulate the I/O bottleneck over a tree of 1000 files spread across 20 sub-directories alongside 50 root files:
- Sequential Deletion baseline: ~330ms
- Concurrent Deletion (with Promise.all): ~88ms
- Measured Improvement: ~73% speedup over baseline.

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Refactors DownloadTask.removeDirectory to delete directory entries in batched parallel groups (up to 32) using Promise.all, after filtering out . and .., then removes the parent directory.

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Directory removal (batched parallel)
harmony/pushy/src/main/ets/DownloadTask.ts
Replaced sequential recursive deletion with batched concurrent deletion: filters out ./.., groups entries (max 32), runs deletions per batch via Promise.all, then calls fileIo.rmdir(path).

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Inline comments:
In `@harmony/pushy/src/main/ets/DownloadTask.ts`:
- Around line 77-81: The current code in DownloadTask.ts collects removePromises
by mapping files to this.removeDirectory and then uses await
Promise.all(removePromises), which can create unbounded concurrency and I/O
saturation; change this to a bounded-concurrency approach: replace the direct
Promise.all over removePromises with a concurrency-limited executor (either use
a small shared pool like p-limit or implement manual batching/chunking) that
invokes this.removeDirectory for each file up to N concurrent tasks (e.g., 10)
and awaits completion of each batch (or awaits tasks from the limiter) before
continuing; keep the existing filter for '.' and '..' and preserve error
propagation/await semantics around the removeDirectory calls.
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@sunnylqm sunnylqm merged commit 392ae76 into master Apr 14, 2026
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