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

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


Yes, but I can do a direct comparison, opening the same project with an
older build and a newer build, and get glaringly different results in terms
of loading speed.

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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