So I added a few print statements to my copy of the 3D viewer in order to figure out why the 3D viewer was so slow...
The results were very interesting. http://pastebin.com/7s8gXVjY 1) There is no caching whatsoever! The VRML/X3D files are loaded from scratch each time they're instantiated in the board. If I have three copies of a high-poly connector model, the VRML is loaded from disk and parsed three times. This should be an O(1) operation rather than O(n), with polygon data stored in some kind of application-wide cache and referenced for each model instance. 2) The instantiated models are thrown out as soon as the 3D viewer window is closed or the "reload board" button in the 3D viewer window is clicked. 3) Models take an absurd amount of time to load. Three seconds for an optimized release build to load a Molex HDMI connector (14k vertices and 9k faces) is completely unreasonable, FreeCad loads it in a few hundred ms (too fast to measure easily). Is anybody working on this already or should I start optimizing myself? -- Andrew Zonenberg PhD student, security group Computer Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://colossus.cs.rpi.edu/~azonenberg/
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