[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Freeciv is too slow

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:34:23PM -0800, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:29:22PM -0800, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > I used to love playing a lazy game of Freeciv where you just press turn
> > done over and over.  I could play a game against 30 AI in under an hour.
> > Now just playing about 60 turns takes an hour because its SO SLOW.
> > 
> > I don't know whats slow, or what is causing it, but its been getting
> > slowly worse over time.  I'm running on a PIII-800 with 9 AIs and its
> > not fun. 
> > 
> > Just needed to vent a bit.
> 
> Gtk+2, CVS HEAD current.
> 
> No shared vision
> 
> All local options turned off:
> smooth unit moves
> show combat animation
> auto center on units/combat
> 
> In civ III they had an option to not display enemy moves... I wish I had
> that here, but I wish even more it just wasn't slow.  

This sounds like #3769, which is known (reported) for 7 months now. I called
it 'the most annoying bug' recently.

My first mail in #3769 is a good description:

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CVS 22 MAR 2003 GTK 1.2

Hello,

some issues about unit movement on my 200 MHz box.

In short: it's no fun anymore :-(

Goto is significantly slower now (depending on route) and consumes
much CPU.

Moving transporters (with units) in and out of cities is slow.

Transporters with units are, at beginning and end of turn, displayed as
empty for a short moment.

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After some time, I became aware, that this starts after 2 or 3 turns, not
from the beginning.

More info is in #4376, which has state 'resolved' for some reason I don't
know.

The last entry in #4376 is, 'Ticket 4376 MergedInto ticket 3769', but I
cannot see that they are merged; maybe a bug in new RT?

#3769 has state 'new'.

See also my mail in #4644, which should have been filed in #4376. It says:

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This is the top on my bug charts list (most annoying)

Remember:

After 2 turns or so unit movement becomes slow, especially with transporters
transporting units, especially moving in and out cities, especially visible
with GOTO.

Related: PR#3769

New:

I noted that this happens with settlers/engineers as well, so it is not
related to happy/unhappy.
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Christian

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