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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 19/11/2017 à 16:18, Heikki Pulkkinen a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> You can dowload it from:
> 
> https://forum.kicad.info/t/testbench-board-for-kicad/1127
> 
> I do some more test, and found that new algo would be very fast with my parallell zone filling algo,
> but it get stuck after filled all 128 pours below 10 seconds and started to removing insulated
> areas. Other boards just works fine. Maybe it is too good to be true to get results like that.
> 
> Rgards
> 
> Heikki
> 

I made a test with this board (on W7 32 bits):
Refill zones:
stable version: 10s
master (current) version: 3m

but there are less unconnected items in master version
(and the master version ran out of memory once)

I am not sure this board was made with Kicad.

> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 19/11/17 15:35, Heikki Pulkkinen wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     >
>     > Sorry to tell that, but it seems that new connectivity algorithm is slow
>     > with bigger boards. Doing some tests I noticed that  new algo is
>     > speeding recalculating ratsnest, but it costs manual routing and
>     > dragging performance. This video shows how big difference is. And that
>     > board is just nothing big.
>     >
>     > Zones filling, that was really big difference. Old algo below 3 mins.
>     > New one almost 17  minutes. Old algo, has my parallelism algo in zone
>     > filling, but it is doing it twice, with 2 core processor, and most of
>     > the time it is calculating ratsnest before and after filling.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     Heikki,
> 
>     Can you send us (privately) the board that shows the drops in
>     performance? I'd greatly like to optimize it, with your help if possible!
> 
>     Best,
>     Tom
> 
>     PS. What's the CPU/RAM of your PC?
> 


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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS