Github user vladimir-kotikov commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/pull/305#issuecomment-139556202
The `xcode`'s `parse` method uses `child_process.fork` API to run parser in
a separate worker process, which then reports parsing result to parent process
via `child_process.send`. However `send` became async in node v4 so this
communication doesn't work properly now.
Although, `parseSync` method is even more efficient (at least for small
project) since it doesn't creates a a new instance of node process. From
official `child_process` docs:
> These child Node.js processes are still whole new instances of V8. Assume
at least 30ms startup and 10mb memory for each new Node.js. That is, you cannot
create many thousands of them.
Also compare execution time for tests from
https://github.com/MSOpenTech/cordova-lib/commit/81eef5f7d0ee46a88c2a6836fd87c6c1c1ab216d:
~0.9 seconds for this branch (sync parsing) and ~2.7 second if applied to
current master (async). The difference IMO is caused by cost of spawning node
processes.
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