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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Slow?  I have noticed that the library loading slowness appeared with
> the new IO manager thing. Although I don't have any proff to quanify
> that.


I can also attest that (at least on Windows) the more recently nightlies
(corresponding to the new IO plugin, approximately) take ~10s to load a
library set that was previously < 1s.

Once the libraries are loaded, eeschema takes an additional length of time
(~10s) to open, whereas previously it opened "instantly"

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2017-03-08 22:33 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 3/8/2017 4:08 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >> That's why I submitted such a trivial patch to the list first, I figured
> >> someone would say something ;)
> >>
> >> It does make sense to me, because the GUI is blocked. The busy cursor
> >> says to me "yes, the GUI is supposed to be blocked right now, it's not
> >> frozen". Even with a progress bar, it can seem unresponsive -
> >> particularly if 1) the progress bar ends up obscured, as can happen with
> >> 'weird' window managers sometimes, or 2) if a single library takes a
> >> particularly long time to load, which I'm sure will only get worse if we
> >> eventually allow loading them over the internet like for footprint libs.
> >
> > It's the old belt and suspender method.  Users have got to quit using
> > those 'weird' window managers.  It causes way too much grief.  I'm
> > surprised that a single library load takes long enough to need a busy
> > cursor but I'm not opposed to the patch.  Does the progress bar in
> > wxWidgets have a continuous mode?  That doesn't solve the hidden
> > progress window issue though.
> >
>
> I like the non-continous mode.
>
> Slow?  I have noticed that the library loading slowness appeared with
> the new IO manager thing. Although I don't have any proff to quanify
> that.
>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:55:10PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>> Does showing a progress dialog and a busy cursor at the same time make
> >>> sense?
> >>>
> >>> On 3/8/2017 3:36 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> This patch enables display of the "busy" cursor while schematic
> >>>> libraries are being loaded. Tested on Linux, Windows 10, and macOS
> >>>> 10.12.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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