On 1/27/2017 6:02 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 05:21:42PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> I finally got the new schematic I/O plugin fully functional for the >> current schematic and symbol library file formats. When you have some >> time, please test this to see if I've missed anything. I've pushed it >> to my repo on launchpad here: >> >> https://code.launchpad.net/~stambaughw/kicad/+git/kicad-dev/+ref/use-symbol-library-table >> >> There is a noticeable performance hit on start up when loading a >> schematic. > > Holy crap, there is a performance hit of _over a minute_ loading the > project I'm working on!
Debug or release build? I saw significantly longer load times on debug builds although release builds were no speed demon either. I'll step through it again tomorrow just to see if I missed where the cache may be getting reloaded. > > I'm testing this though. > >> I'm not sure why this is happening but I believe it has to >> do with the cache validity test being called on every symbol search. I >> verified that the cache isn't being reloaded but I'm a bit surprised >> that there was as much of a performance hit. If you happen to notice >> something I missed please let me know. I am primarily concern with the >> accuracy and stability of the library file I/O at this point. I tested >> everything I could think of against the current code and always got the >> same file results but there may have been some corner cases that I >> missed. The performance hit will be temporary. Once the symbol library >> table support is implemented, the symbol search through the entire >> library list will go away. Either the symbol is in the library >> specified or it's not. I will probably introduce lazy loading as well >> once the symbol library table is implemented as only libraries that >> contain symbols in the schematic will need to be loaded when the >> schematic is opened. Many thanks in advance for the help. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
