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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2017-03-08 23:52 GMT+01:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 09:46:54AM +1100, Oliver Walters wrote:
>> >
>> > 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"
>
> I've noticed this too. Funny enough it doesn't seem to happen for all
> projects for me. I wonder if it's something only being done sometimes,
> or a polynomial time explosion.
>
> Either way someone needs to point the business end of a profiler at the
> library loader.
>

Doesn't that just depend on how big and how many libs are specied in
the pro file?  This is of course project specific.

>>
>> 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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