[Kicad-developers] Spice simulator: need info about net names versus net number option

2016-09-14 Thread jp charras
Hi Orson, Tomasz: Recently, I tried to remove a fully outdated spice option netlist: use net numbers or net names. I am thinking it is not needed by spice simulators since 20 years. But I saw it is still used in our spice simulator. This is very easy to change, but my question is: Is it a reason

Re: [Kicad-developers] Spice simulator: need info about net names versus net number option

2016-09-15 Thread Maciej SumiƄski
Hi Jean-Pierre, We have decided to use net numbers, as it was convenient for us. They were already available, and Spice to eeschema maps are map instead of map. I doubt it would really influence the performance, as anyway the majority of the simulation time is spent in the ngspice routines, not e

Re: [Kicad-developers] Spice simulator: need info about net names versus net number option

2016-09-15 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 14.09.2016 10:24, jp charras wrote: > Hi Orson, Tomasz: > > Recently, I tried to remove a fully outdated spice option netlist: use net > numbers or net names. > I am thinking it is not needed by spice simulators since 20 years. > > But I saw it is still used in our spice simulator. > This is