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Part of #193689
Pre-requisite for #192937

This PR reduces the angular sampling step in the 3D perspective transform test to eliminate rapid snapshot cascades and stabilize the Mac framework_tests_impeller shard.

While preparing #192937, Mac framework_tests_impeller failed repeatedly but not deterministically on 3D transform renders the same with or without needsCompositing in packages/flutter/test/widgets/transform_test.dart. That PR recycles the host buffer between snapshots to fix the memory leak. This test takes back-to-back snapshots in a tight loop, which has an increased likelihood of a GPU race condition when host buffers are recycled. The chance of a problem increases with number of loop iterations, so this PR just reduces the number of loops in transform_test.dart by increasing the angle increment from 0.01 to 0.05. I feel this still achieves the purpose of the test while reducing flakiness related to host buffer reuse.

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This pull request modifies the '3D transform renders the same with or without needsCompositing' test in packages/flutter/test/widgets/transform_test.dart by increasing the loop step size for the angle variable from 0.01 to 0.05, thereby reducing the total number of iterations. I have no feedback to provide.

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LGTM 👍 . Good catch! I see no reason why this needs to be so frequent.

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…lutter#193936)

Part of flutter#193689
Pre-requisite for flutter#192937

This PR reduces the angular sampling step in the 3D perspective
transform test to eliminate rapid snapshot cascades and stabilize the
`Mac framework_tests_impeller` shard.

While preparing flutter#192937, `Mac
framework_tests_impeller` failed repeatedly but not deterministically on
`3D transform renders the same with or without needsCompositing` in
`packages/flutter/test/widgets/transform_test.dart`. That PR recycles
the host buffer between snapshots to fix the memory leak. This test
takes back-to-back snapshots in a tight loop, which has an increased
likelihood of a GPU race condition when host buffers are recycled. The
chance of a problem increases with number of loop iterations, so this PR
just reduces the number of loops in `transform_test.dart` by increasing
the angle increment from `0.01` to `0.05`. I feel this still achieves
the purpose of the test while reducing flakiness related to host buffer
reuse.


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Reason for revert: not needed because #196063 is the true root cause of the flakiness

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Successfully created revert PR: #196066

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…density (flutter#196066)

Reverts: [Mitigate snapshot race in 3D transform test by reducing loop
density](flutter#193936)

Initiated by: @andywolff

Reason for reverting: not needed because
flutter#196063 is the true root cause
of the flakiness

Original PR Author: @andywolff

Reviewed By: @justinmc

The original PR description is provided below:

Part of flutter#193689
Pre-requisite for flutter#192937

This PR reduces the angular sampling step in the 3D perspective
transform test to eliminate rapid snapshot cascades and stabilize the
`Mac framework_tests_impeller` shard.

While preparing flutter#192937, `Mac
framework_tests_impeller` failed repeatedly but not deterministically on
`3D transform renders the same with or without needsCompositing` in
`packages/flutter/test/widgets/transform_test.dart`. That PR recycles
the host buffer between snapshots to fix the memory leak. This test
takes back-to-back snapshots in a tight loop, which has an increased
likelihood of a GPU race condition when host buffers are recycled. The
chance of a problem increases with number of loop iterations, so this PR
just reduces the number of loops in `transform_test.dart` by increasing
the angle increment from `0.01` to `0.05`. I feel this still achieves
the purpose of the test while reducing flakiness related to host buffer
reuse.


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