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hi @amccaugh, no problem-- most of the thanks should go to @alexsludds for getting this started. i agree with your concerns, and I don't yet have good answers for them......

don't know about a reticle, but gdsfactory has a fairly large library of cells we can benchmark if we can get this branch of phidl to also work with gdsfactory...

was also a bit surprised to see that, but it seems to be true. i actually found it to be much faster in one instance to copy the polygons from...

Also, in the current branch, you will get errors if you comment out instances of `gc.disable()` and run the tests

hi @simbilod , you appear to be looking at an old version of gdsfactory. please pull the latest :) that won't fully solve your issue, but it will take you...

hi @joamatab , a few comments 1. I think we should allow the yaml netlist spec to represent a source, logical-netlist. I think the key modification needed here would be...

i misspoke previously. oascript used to be open source. it now appears to require si2 membership to get access to the latest version. https://si2.org/oascripting-solutions/ however, an old version (2014) can...

this tool is in rust, but it seems it can read/write lef. also a candidate for an alternate backend to gds https://github.com/dan-fritchman/Layout21 @dan-fritchman

curious what a typical breakdown is on the time for computational tasks at write time you list here like fracturing, etc. vs IO. do you know? if they are same...

Hi @heitzmann , sure' I would be happy if we add the option to merge layers before calculating and elaborate on the function behavior in the docstring. Thanks.