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Which is still twice as fast as the i7-870 that I have.
I’ve been “plagued” by footprint library loading (caching?) times of around 25s (from SSD) but only (mostly?) after switching projects, and the first time footprints get loaded during a KiCad session.
3 minutes is excessive.
Recently I had to switch to the nightly version of KiCad V5.1.x because of a conflict which prevented me from running both KiCad V5.1.x and V5.99
deb Index of /js-reynaud/kicad-5-nightly/ubuntu focal main
That Js-Reynaud version has much quicker library loading times. Around 5s for me. This should have been fixed in KiCad V5.1.11, and that version is apparently already released for windows and I expect the offical announcement “soon”.