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[Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jean-Pierre,

I managed to recreate the problem on Windows too. I believe it should be
fixed now, i.e. the performance should be at least as good as with the
master branch.

Regards,
Orson

On 11/18/2017 08:19 PM, jp charras wrote:
> Le 18/11/2017 à 20:04, Maciej Suminski a écrit :
>> Hi Jean-Pierre,
>>
>> On 11/18/2017 08:00 PM, jp charras wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Hi Orson,
>>>
>>> I tested the new library editor on W7 32 bits.
>>> The component tree is very useful, but I am worried by the time taken by the library editor to be
>>> displayed.
>>> I am guessing this time is spent to build this component tree.
>>> About 10s on my computer, to build a tree of 1100 components and 10 libraires.
>>> (this is not a lot, in fact the minimal number of libraries and symbols loaded for any job).
>>>
>>> This is annoying because these 10s (only for a minimal config) are spent every time I open the
>>> library editor (and nothing is displayed during these 10s, just Kicad freezes).
>>
>> Ok, I will have a look at the performance issues. Does it take
>> significantly less time when you open the dialog to place a new
>> component in the schematic editor?
> 
> From your "libedit" refactor branch, the same time (10s).
> From the current Kicad master version: only about 2s.
> 
>>
>>> On a related topic, I saw (and used...) the "Browse Files..." button in the Schematic Library Tables
>>> dialog.
>>> It is *very* useful.
>>> Could you commit this enhancement ASAP, regardless the library editor problems?
>>
>> Sure, no problem. I am glad you like it too.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>>
>> Regards,
>> Orson
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
> 
>