Re: gEDA-user: Life and death for gEDA: portability...

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org>]

Hi All,

>On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:19:04PM -0500, John Doty wrote:
>> > If gnetlist can handle very large flat schematics without slowing down 
>> > painfully, I'll go ahead and write the dummy flat .sch files.  Does 
>> > anyone know?
>> 
>> I have a 700 net flat schematic I'm working on. Gnetlist takes about 4.5
>> minutes to generate a netlist on an 800 MHz PowerBook G4.
> 
>which backend?  That could potentially make a large difference.
>

One way to check for sure where the time is being spent is to run
gnetlist with the -v flag and watch the verbose output.  My guess all
of this 4.5 minutes is being spent creating the internal representation.
gnetlist is not a very efficient program.  It can use lots of improvement
in runtime performance.

								-Ales