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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think it's the footprint preview that is the issue.  I think
something happened when the symbol library table progress dialog was
added or afterwards.  When I added the symbol library table code, it was
slow the first time you opened the chooser because the symbol library
table uses lazy loading so all 90+ symbol libraries (assuming you are
using the default symbol library table) get loaded.  After the initial
load, it was very fast.  Something has changed since then and it appears
the symbol library table is being reloaded every time the chooser is
launched.  Once I plow through my backlog of patches to test and merge,
I will take a look at it.

Wayne

On 12/28/2017 04:48 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> Something definitely happened.  It was fast for me, but now takes several seconds.
> 
> On the other hand, not having it would be worse.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
>> On 28 Dec 2017, at 20:58, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How many have noticed a drop in performance in the component chooser,
>> particularly surrounding footprint preview? I've noticed a rise in
>> complaints about it, including one now who's saying it takes around two
>> seconds to open every time. I'm not sure if something changed since I
>> wrote it or if I'm just getting more complaints as it gets tested on a
>> wider range of systems.
>>
>> If the performance is poor, I may option out the footprint
>> preview/chooser before release so we don't release a turkey. I
>> definitely don't have time to actually _fix_ it before then. So... what
>> are people seeing for performance here? It's still fast for me but I'm
>> using it with a small library on a fast system.
>>
>> -- 
>> Chris
>>
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