Hey Ivan, Thanks for the quick response. Your profiler came in handy and I was able to track the culprit: I was using the lurker module for hot reloading during development. Lurker is the one scanning the game directory for changes and (unknown to me) skips over directories that begin with ".&q...

So I encountered this issue today and potentially solved it already, but want to know why, and if it was known behavior or documented somewhere that I've just missed... I have a large number of .json files in my game directory that contain some pre-computed lookup tables for the results of analysis ...