gEDA-dev: [PATCH] Symbol library performance

[Peter TB Brett]

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 17:11:38 Werner Hoch wrote:

> > > 2. Copying of my generated symbols is slow in gschem. If I place
> > > 100 symbols and create a copy, it currently takes quite long (about
> > > 20s).
> >
> > Hmm... is it any slower for the file-based symbols compared to the
> > command-based ones?
>
> Yes. I don't notice any delay when copying file-based symbols.
>
> > If so, that's bad and shouldn't be happening -- the symbol data's
> > supposed to be cached.
>
> gschem calls my script over and over again.

Try the attached patchset.  This will cache symbols until the cache is next 
invalidated (e.g. by explicit flushing, adding component sources, or clicking 
the "Refresh" button).

Performance seems to be better, although I haven't done any benchmarking.

Cheers,

                           Peter

-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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