Re: [Traverso-devel] plugin window slow to load: Update

[Remon]

> I just timed it.
>
> The new plugin window takes my 1.6Ghz centrino laptop 67 seconds to
> start up. (!!!)

Hah, buy a faster laptop !

> If I comment out the line in LV2Plugin::get_plugin_info() that calls
> slv2_port_get_class(plugin, slvport), it goes back to taking under 2
> seconds.

Still long, but much better indeed...

> This call actually queries the db, which could explain the slowdown,
> except that slv2_plugin_get_name() also queries the db, and it doesn't
> seem to slow me down.  Strange.
>
> I downloaded, built, and installed the version of librasqal that comes
> with feisty.
> (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/rasqal/rasqal_0.9.13.orig.tar
>.gz) I undid my changes to LV2Plugin::get_plugin_info(), and rebuilt
> traverso.
>
> Fixed!  Now the window takes < 2 seconds to start up.
>
> But, this may mean that the plugins are going to be slow to start up
> for all Edgy users?
> Edgy comes with librasqal 0.9.12.  Feisty 0.9.13.
> Apparently we should require/recommend 0.9.13.

Edgy doesn't have Qt 4.2, so those people will have to build Qt 4 themselves. 
I think it's much easier and better for those people to use the autopackage 
installer, which has a correct version of librasqal built in!

> We should add this to a troubleshooting list somewhere.

Hmmyeah, just in case someone tries to build Qt themselves on Edgy.....


Thanks for looking into this matter!

Remon