Only available applications slowdown

[iLLiCiTiT]

Current Behavior

When Only available applications is checked (ayon+settings://applications/only_available), discovering of applications is a lot slower in launcher tool. Don't know why but it may slow down discovery by seconds.

[BigRoy]

It's likely because it checks for the existence of the executables for each application, on each task change. We may want to:

• cache the results of the check unless a user hard-refreshes?
• see if we can optimize the existing check on disk somehow?

However, it even feels slow for the amount of applications. It shouldn't be that slow to just check whether e.g. 200 files exist or not. Maybe each entry application executable may format via Anatomy that gets re-initialized each time.. but that's a wild guess.

[BigRoy]

Just cross-referencing. This came up on discord just now here