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> On 10 Feb 2018, at 22:34, Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie> wrote:
> 
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> Yep, just a minute.  (I suggested you back your other change out first in the 
> bug report, but don’t do that now as my rebase will be on top of your merge.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> 
>> On 10 Feb 2018, at 22:28, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Jeff,
>> 
>> Would you please rebase the performance patch so I can use `git am` to merge 
>> it.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
>> On 02/08/2018 07:35 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> Ping.
>>> Any thoughts on patching wxWidgets for other platforms?
>>>> On 6 Feb 2018, at 14:08, Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie 
>>>> <mailto:j...@rokeby.ie>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I accidentally dropped the dev list off the last few replies.  They 
>>>> included an update which fixed the issue Seth hypothesised.
>>>> 
>>>> But I’m updating it one more time because, well, I made it faster again.
>>>> 
>>>> There are two patches this time: the updated Kicad patch which knocks yet 
>>>> another 1/4 second off both first- and subsequent-times, and a wxWidgets 
>>>> patch which when combined with the Kicad patch brings the subsequent-time 
>>>> to near-instantaneous.
>>>> 
>>>> Since we maintain our own Mac wxWidgets there’s no reason not to get the 
>>>> full benefit there.  I’ll leave it up to others to decide whether to 
>>>> include the wxWidgets patch for other platforms.
>>>> 
>>>> (Note: while the two patches are dependent on each other /for the final 
>>>> /performance gain, they are /not/ dependent on each other for 
>>>> compiling/linking/running.)
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jeff.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 5 Feb 2018, at 22:48, Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie 
>>>>> <mailto:j...@rokeby.ie>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think I must be having a thick moment, because I’m still not following 
>>>>> you.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If I create a new library in the Footprint Editor and save it to a new 
>>>>> location, then those components won’t be immediately available in Place 
>>>>> Footprint until the library location is added to the Footprint Library 
>>>>> Table, right?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or am I completely missing something?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Jeff.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 5 Feb 2018, at 22:17, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com 
>>>>>> <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 02/05/2018 05:08 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Wayne,
>>>>>>> Do you mean if I use a text editor to modify a module file while KiCad 
>>>>>>> is running, will KiCad notice and reload it?  The answer is yes.  The 
>>>>>>> checksum is generated as a hash of the disk directory last-modified 
>>>>>>> dates; the lib-table only tells it what the current libraries are.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> A text editor is one use case but the footprint library editor can also 
>>>>>> save an entire library file without going through the fp-lib-table so 
>>>>>> it's important that we don't break this behavior.  I may have missed 
>>>>>> this as I am sitting in Montreal airport after missing my connection 
>>>>>> with no sleep, a nasty case of jet lag, and an inbox that is sprialing 
>>>>>> out of control so I may have just overlooked it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Nice talk at FOSDEM, by the way.  Do we all get t-shirts? ;)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Maybe one of these days I'll get around to some KiCad apparel of some 
>>>>>> type to give out to the dev team.  Although I don't think you should 
>>>>>> depend on my lack of graphics skills to design anything. :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Jeff.
>>>>>>> PS: updated patch attached to fix the issue Seth discovered 
>>>>>>> (hypothesised?).
>>>>>>>> On 5 Feb 2018, at 21:59, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com 
>>>>>>>> <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> What happens when footprint library file is modified outside the 
>>>>>>>> fp-lib-table?  At one point you could change the footprint library 
>>>>>>>> file without performing the file write through the fp-lib-table and 
>>>>>>>> the next time you accessed the library, it would recognize the file 
>>>>>>>> was modified and reload the cache.  Please make sure this behavior is 
>>>>>>>> not broken.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 02/05/2018 04:51 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>>>>>>>> wxWidgets should return Now() which will make the checksums not match 
>>>>>>>>> and trigger a reload.
>>>>>>>>> Of course what actually happens is that wxWidgets asserts. ;)
>>>>>>>>> New patch on the way….
>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>> Jeff.
>>>>>>>>>> On 5 Feb 2018, at 21:42, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbr...@gmail.com 
>>>>>>>>>> <mailto:seth.hillbr...@gmail.com> <mailto:seth.hillbr...@gmail.com>> 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Jeff-
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Will removing a footprint library trigger a refresh?  Or will that 
>>>>>>>>>> mess up the checksum calculation?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> -S
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 2018-02-05 13:04 GMT-08:00 Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie 
>>>>>>>>>> <mailto:j...@rokeby.ie> <mailto:j...@rokeby.ie>>:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>  This one for Place Footprint (specifically the List All dialog
>>>>>>>>>>  found therein).
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>  On my machine it knocks the first-use time from 4s to 3s and the
>>>>>>>>>>  subsequent-use time from 2.5s to 1s.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>  Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>  Jeff.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
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