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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oliver,

Nice catch!  I committed your patch to the master branch.  Thank you for
your contribution to KiCad.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 9/28/2017 6:06 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> Attached is a patch that provides a ~90% reduction in the time taken to
> load symbol libraries when launching eeschema.
> 
> Test case: Add all available libraries on my system to the search path.
> Prior to this patch, 40 seconds to load libraries. Now, 4 seconds!
> 
> Essentially, each pin was being tested against every other pin in the
> symbol, multiple times. Each test required a vector to be created and
> then destroyed.
> 
> Now these comparisons can be ignored, and (I think?) this makes sense at
> initial load.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
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