On 25 Apr 2012, at 08:15, Durk Talsma wrote: > 1). On my machine I'm actually experiencing an extremely startup during the > "reading airport/nav data" stage (~up to minute or so). This usually only > happens when I try to load flightgear for the first time. Once these files > are buffered everything is okay. Can this be due to an I/O configuration > issue on my machine or is this something general? Anyway, I'm just bringing > this up because this -to me- is a bigger bottleneck than the AI xml file > parsing stage.
It's definitely a bigger bottle-neck, but harder to fix - though I did try once (two years ago) and I think it will be revisited given the current navdata discussion. The performance change you see is similar (though less extreme) for me. > 2). I'm a little surprised that the xml file parsing is taking rather long. > Already a few years ago, I've been testing stuff using a private traffic file > derived from project AI (for MSFS 2004), and back than, the loading didn't > take too long. In the mean time, we've added a few bells and whistles though, > so that might have contributed to the delay. And I guess that my tolerance in > this particular area has grown a bit larger than everybody elses. :-) It's more than non-responsive-ness during startup is an issue for me - I'd like to get to a point where we never block the event loop from running, since this feels bad to the user. > 3). & 4). No worries, there is time for all things :) Please let me know if you object to any changes I made, of course. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
