Hi Yes, I agree the compiler is not the limiting factor but the design. Now that the autorouter is free/open source I am hoping there will be a project page someplace so that researchers and developers can add in some design changes and improvements. I have noticed the program goes unstable if it runs for extended periods of time. There probably some bugs deeply buried in the code which eventually corrupts the boards and causes lockups. It is also am almost purely single threaded design which I think could be improved on multi-core CPUs. Great news! Thanks and have a nice day! From: n8vem...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of yoda Hi Andrew!!! It is still Java but with the JIT compilers available in Java these days it is almost native. The big gain would be to make it multi-threaded. From my looking at it so far it appears to be single threaded. I would think that it would be natural for something like this to be multi-threaded. Dave HI Michael! Thanks! This is fantastic news on FreeRouting.net finally going open source. I was afraid it would disappear forever and we’d all be screwed. Now it is part of the permanent internet landscape! The tool is now finally a standalone Windows/Linux application and that is even better. Is it still a Java application? Can it be compiled to a Windows/Linux native binary? I would think just native compilation would improve performance some if only a small amount. Thanks for letting us know about this and putting it on the wiki. Have a great day! -- |