Geoff Lohr

When a plugin causes such a high overhead, there is something that needs to be done. And if it can't, then yes, it should stay uninstalled. No point in having a plugin that triples the load time of X-Plane to the first menu. I do not even know why it has to do this. What do you gain for having something that slows things down so much? When I write lua scripts, I always focus on making sure that it does not slow the system down. To do otherwise is just bad programming and does not consider the user.

I tested all plugins as my first post implies. 8 seconds with no plugins and then I added them all back in one by one. SAM is the one and only that added massive overhead. And if something cannot be done about it, than I am not prepared to spend all that extra time waiting for it. It is not worth it. I am in and out all day as I am writing lua scripts. That time adds up even more so doing that. You really notice 8 seconds versus 30 seconds.

Thank you for responding. This long delay does not just happen on first load. It happens every time you load X-Plane. Here is the last log. About 30 seconds by the looks of things. 2022.02.05-08.35.07-log.txt

I had noticed that X-Plane was taking a lot longer to load to the first menu. So I did some testing and found it was the SAM plugin. Even on my very fast Intel 10th gen CPU running a 5 GHZ with a very fast M2 drive, it more than triples the initial X-Plane load time. 8 seconds with no SAM plugin and now 26 seconds with the SAM plugin. For those with a slower system and normal hard drive, I can imagine the overhead would be massive. Seems to be also dependent on how many sceneries you have installed. That is a lot longer to wait every time I load X-Plane and especially if you are developing .lua scripts and going in and out all the time. That takes many minutes a day from my time and over an hour a week. This overhead is an overhead you do not need or want and especially when you are not doing anything that uses the plugin. It is a lot of wasted time. So can this overhead be removed? An option added to disable what ever it is that is taking such a long time? I have removed your plugin for now as it is slows things down way to much. I hope you can do something about this. I have many plugins but none had large overheads as the SAM plugin except this XJet plugin which was not as long. And the skunk craft updater added two seconds to load times. Acceptable. But from 8 to 26 seconds is massive and very noticeable. Thanks.