Vincent Wong

# Benchmarking the existing method First, I must admit my current PC is at mid-high tier, and so things might be faster than average. But the point should still stand...

One thing that sticks out when doing some detailed profiling: ``` Beginning to time the export Writing file header Writing nodes Writing took (to_xml, write): 7.521965265274048, 0.6387271881103516 Writing ways Writing...

Hmmm. We are already using `lxml` for fast export. Spawning new threads does not work due to Python's GIL, which effectively encourages single-threaded code. Playing around with multiprocessing did not...

This just dropped a few days ago: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/whats-up-python-the-gil-removed-a THe removal of GIL in Python can be very useful to this speed up: instead of spawning difficult-to-control subprocesses to parallelize XML-to-string,...

Tangentially, Profitable Tourism https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=550479679 modifies taxi fare, but is pretty much abandoned/broken. That could be a starting point for future work.

Not attempting to explain this issue, but it seems ppl are interested in a way to see how many pax enters or exits a vehicle when the transport vehicle has...

Some context: I was updating from 3.3.12 to 3.3.13 via GitHub Desktop's "restart now" button on its "what's new" banner. Here's the same log file, with the log beginning after...

I was restarting GitHub Desktop a few times after the update is complete. My understanding is that, GitHub Desktop crashed so hard, I could not get a good log out...

Got a weird but positive update @sergiou87 So, to get things moving, I decided to use SourceTree for the time being: - install SourceTree - grant permission to Git Credentials...

I have narrowed it down to only 1 line in the log; as long as the following line appears: ``` 2024-04-09T10:13:17.189Z - info: [ui] Stats reported. ``` Then GitHub Desktop...