Schematic editor is very slow on large schematic

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The “hold down insert key” is also the undo issue (though at least it’s correct there as it should be creating a separate issue for each repeat).

Note that these undo issues have been hugely improved for 8.0 (the general issue earlier, and the Change To issue just now).

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Rats. Just profiled it. Maik is right: it’s the nets, not the undo issue. (Specifically, CONNECTION_SUBGRAPH::GetNameForDriver().)

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I trust you guys take it from here.
I could report it on gitlab if you like but that’s the limit of my own Voodoo Ninja Skills.

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I fixed the existing cache and added a second level. Operations in this document are now about 3X faster.

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v7 testing or v799 nightly?

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Nightly. Testing is frozen except for critical regressions until we release 7.0.7.

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Cleaned up this topic by moving the hijacking posts back to the correct topic.

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Well, the original issue is pending a commit, which is queued for after 7.0.7 release.
As I understand it, each label change caused a netlist cache flush.

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The current nightly was not updated the last 2 days, so I could not test the proposed fix. If I get a updated nightly version (and then get test-results) I will write a note.

As I understand it, each label change caused a netlist cache flush

It doesn’t only affect the labels. Each operation (even creating simple descriptive text) takes more time than on my usual schematics. (which are also not small).

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That might well be the “Undo” issue. File operations on Windows crawl.

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Note also that only the top-level cache is flushed (the pre-existing one, which is now only used for labels with text variables in them). The lower-level cache (which was added a couple of days ago) is managed on a label-by-label basis (so other labels aren’t flushed when one is changed).

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I downloaded the nightly from yesterday evening. The performance-improvement is noticeable, could be very well factor 3. Still not as snappy as my own schematics, but workable (medium laptop with intel I5-1135G processor, integrated graphics).

I noticed another (different) issue with the hierarchy-panel on the side.
Selecting all 32 subsheet-rectangles on subsheet “Digits” (page4, top right side) and then move that selection causes the hierarchy-panel to scroll 3 times from top to bottom.
With so much subsheets (>300) this needs much time, stopping the workflow.
The difference in reaction-time can be seen if the hierarchy-panel is switched of intermediately.
@JeffYoung : will you look at this or should I open a gitlab-issue?

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Open an issue please. I hate that dang wxWidgets tree ctrl, so I’ll avoid it as long as possible ;).

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Never do today what can be put off 'till tomorrow. :slightly_smiling_face:

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specially targettting the navigator-panel: hierarchy navigator performance with many subsheets (#15396) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

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