Sketchup 8 faster than sketchup 13?

[Garry K]

I tried my Stair Maker plugin with the last 5 versions of SU on Windows 7.

I asked it to build a 360 degree curved stair with housed stringers and 56 Risers, 50 progressive flare (forces 50 unique treads and 50 unique risers) Each tread flare inreased by 5 mm.
The stair had 2 of the most complex rails that I provide. So there are 392 curved and twised sections making up the 2 rails.

SU 7: 44 seconds
SU 8: 42.5 seconds
SU 2013: 34.3 seconds
SU 2014: 32.3 seconds
SU 2015 64 bit: 33.5 seconds

[Garry K]

Here are the parameters of the stair.
You can see the progressive flare.

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[glro]

@adamb said:

glro: you seem very quick to judge things you perhaps do not understand.

The purpose of having 2 locations, is that one is a global, shared repository, another is a per-user repository.

OK, now i understand the interest of a global repository: it doesn't need the session name
C:\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\SketchUp\Plugins

so it might be easier to find when installing a plugin

maybe ...

but still, if a plugin needs special components to be installed, it still has to be done in the program files folder; so it still needs administrator rights

the component folder should be outside the program files folder also

[roland joseph]

Shut down the external ruby pipeline and hire a bunch of ruby coders. Now that would be a diabolical means for Trimble to make money wouldn't it?

[glro]

@aerilius said:

What does the code do?
Apart from pure mathematical calculations, programming languages can also have side effects and interact with the environment (and such side effects make things hard to reproduce and bugs hard to discover).
Although the ruby version is maybe still the same, the SketchUp environment is changed and performance is affected by entity creation (which then can even call observers of other plugins) or interaction with the user interface.

from SU profiler result, the program mainly spends time in this type of operation
"Sketchup::Entities#each"

would you say that this includes these lines of code?

for e in entities
    if e.is_a? Sketchup;;ComponentInstance
          status = selection.add e
    end 
end #for

[glro]

@roland joseph said:

Shut down the external ruby pipeline ...

do you suggest that some plugins (as mine ...) running slower would be the consequence of an intentional reduction of capacity for ruby programs to interact with sketchup?

[Aerilius]

@glro said:

from SU profiler result, the program mainly spends time in this type of operation
"Sketchup::Entities#each"

The profiler (plugin!) requires quite some understanding of what it does, and how meaningful the result is — even for more advanced developers this profiler in its current state is not that much helpful. That it spends time in each doesn't tell much without decomposing what it does inside each.

@roland joseph said:

Shut down the external ruby pipeline ...

There is no "external" ruby pipeline.

[glro]

@aerilius said:

@glro said:

from SU profiler result, the program mainly spends time in this type of operation
"Sketchup::Entities#each"

The profiler (plugin!) requires quite some understanding of what it does, and how meaningful the result is — even for more advanced developers this profiler in its current state is not that much helpful. That it spends time in each doesn't tell much without decomposing what it does inside each.

@roland joseph said:

Shut down the external ruby pipeline ...

There is no "external" ruby pipeline.

thank you for the answer

so no clue from profiler plugin
and no conspiracy theory

and what about the incidence of the previous model opened? i did notice that the time necessary to proceed on the basis of fixed parameters, may vary according to the previous model opened

[roland joseph]

@unknownuser said:

do you suggest that some plugins (as mine ...) running slower would be the consequence of an intentional reduction of capacity for ruby programs to interact with sketchup?

No.

[roland joseph]

@unknownuser said:

There is no "external" ruby pipeline.

Phew, I was worried for a moment.