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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

I still think there is something wrong with populating the component
tree model.  It was working fine (even with the footprint viewer
loading) until Orson made changes to it support the new symbol library
editor.  He reverted those changes but maybe he missed something subtle
that is causing the issue.  I know Chris said he was going to look at it
when he got a chance since he wrote the original implementation.  He
seems to understand the performance issues.  I'm ok with lazy loading.
It should be a reasonably simple change since that's how the symbol
library table already works but that may problematic for the library
editor.  I can tell you that it is much more noticeable on windows than
linux on my desktop computer.  We really need to get this resolved
before the stable release.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 1/24/2018 9:01 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> I have my symbol libraries pared down to some 3900 symbols.
> 
> Loading the first time takes roughly 3-1/2 seconds.
> 
> The second time it will say “Loading symbols”, but what it’s actually doing is building the component tree.  This takes about 1-1/2 seconds.
> 
> I tried making the component tree static and doing a sync, but this only shaves about 1/2 a second off the time.
> 
> Maybe we need to show the dialog with just the libraries in the tree, and then load the symbols on demand?  (We’d probably need to load the first symbol of each library up-front to get the turn-down arrows, but that should be doable.)
> 
> Thoughts?
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