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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/3/2018 3:52 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Not sure what you mean by "this"; if you mean the improved layout in
> this patch then tonight or tomorrow night, and if you mean the whole
> performance issues in general I can't even guess.

Just your layout changes.  We can tackle the performance issues during
version 6 development.

> 
> Can you point me to the LIB_ID bug? That's probably a relatively easy
> fix that I can handle tonight or tomorrow as well.

I think this is buried somewhere in the component tree model code not
the actual dialog code.

> 
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 03:44:49PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> How soon do you think it will take you got get around to fixing this?
>> There is a bug in the symbol chooser that always returns the root symbol
>> LIB_ID rather the alias LIB_ID that needs to be addressed.  I would
>> rather avoided merge conflicts if I can help it.  I'm busy trying to
>> keep up with the current patch volume so anything to prevent extra work
>> is a good thing.
>>
>> On 1/3/2018 3:37 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>> There's some performance issue that's not just github, but related to
>>> the footprint parse stage I _couldn't_ background due to LOCALE_IO
>>> issues, which seems to run really slow on some people's systems. Some
>>> subtle caching bug may be involved too. Eventually I'd like to untangle
>>> all the LOCALE_IO stuff so parsing can be totally backgrounded but my
>>> day job takes up way too much for me to get that done in a timely manner
>>> currently.
>>>
>>> I may improve this slightly before pushing - with the footprint section
>>> simply removed, the layout of the dialog is a bit suboptimal, with the
>>> symbol preview taking up valuable space that the info box could use. I
>>> might have it populate the dialog with something more close to the
>>> original layout when footprints are disabled.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 02:11:45PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>> Chris,
>>>>
>>>> I'm OK with this patch so go ahead and push it when you get a chance.  I
>>>> wonder if the majority of the performance issues are due to loading
>>>> footprints using the github plugin.  I'm guessing if the footprints were
>>>> on the user's local drive that the lag caused by loading all of the
>>>> footprint libraries would be all that objectionable.  For version 5, the
>>>> default global footprint table will point to the footprint libraries
>>>> that get installed locally instead of the github libraries which are no
>>>> longer being maintained.  Thanks for addressing this issue.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>
>>>> On 1/2/2018 9:55 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've attached a patch to make the footprint preview and selection
>>>>> functionality in eeschema optional, to address primarily performance
>>>>> concerns some users have, and also to address the handful of planned
>>>>> features still unimplemented. It's a runtime option, default OFF, so
>>>>> users can easily enable it if they like. I should have time after the
>>>>> release to work more on polishing it and then we can take the option
>>>>> back out.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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