Hi Chris, If your main goal is to reduce the time required to load the libraries (awesome!) then keep in mind the I/O benchmarks [1] executed by John Beard some time ago.
Cheers, Orson 1. https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg27899.html On 07/18/2017 03:47 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > Yes, the goal would be to try to make the footprint parser entirely > non-locale-sensitive so as not to need to switch anyway. The problem with > LOCALE_IO is that it's incompatible with threading (especially on Windows > where msys2 provides no concept of a thread-local locale), so there's no > way to background parsing. I really need to eliminate a GUI freeze on > parse, people are not happy with it. > > As for removing it entirely from other places too, this may be less > feasible. For now I just want it out of the footprint parser. Removing it > in other places too may have to wait. > > On Jul 18, 2017 7:12 AM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have no objections as long as nothing gets broken and the code doesn't >> get more complicated (less readable). LOCALE_IO exists in all of the >> plugins not just the kicad plugin so there is a lot of code to fix. The >> reason LOCALE_IO exists is to hide resetting the locale on exceptions. >> I don't see how any other solution is going to result in cleaner code >> but I'm willing to entertain the idea. Please test your changes >> thoroughly and submit a patch so we can test it and take a look at it >> before committing. >> >> On 7/17/2017 8:44 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: >>> If I somehow found the time to strip LOCALE_IO completely out of the >>> footprint parser without changing the behavior, would anyone have any >>> religious objections or otherwise mourn the loss? >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
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