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. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
