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[Kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just tried this on a large project. The speedup is noticeable.

On 07/24/2017 04:25 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> When I was working on speed improvements for DUPLICATE action in GAL, I 
> also discovered that the select / deselect functions were very slow.
>
> Ref: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg29539.html
>
> The attached patch reduces time taken to select / deselect items by ~75%
>
> Test Case: ~500 SSOP footprints, select all / deselect all
>
> Essentially, selecting and deselecting forced an invalidation of the 
> item layer set, which quickly adds up in terms of time taken to 
> regenerate layer data.
>
> Now only KIGFX::COLOR is invalidated.
>
> Cheers,
> Oliver
>
>
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 -Kristoffer