This release focuses on adding performance improvements to the 3DS version of the software.
What's new
- Fixed: startup time has been drastically improved: ~50% speedup on uncached boot, ~90% speedup on cached boot.
- This has been achieved by profiling the application boot process, and realizing that title cache persistence on the SD card took majority of the loading time. Now this operation is lazily done in a separate thread. It's funny to realize that a badly implemented optimization can become a bottleneck of its own, so take my mistake as a lesson.
- Here's the improvements I had on my console (improvements may vary since they depend on how many games you have on your console):
- Uncached startup went down from 9.8s to 5.7s
- Cached startup went down from 5.7s to 0.6s
- Added: due to requests from multiple users, Checkpoint can now be updated from Universal Updater.
- Fixed: cartridge loading now runs immediately rather than waiting for the title cache to be persisted on the SD card.
- Fixed: properly quit the application gracefully when an handled exception occurs.
- Fixed: initial code refactoring.
- Removed: some redundant logs in the title loader.
- General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.
Thank you for your patience and support.
If you wish to contribute, pull requests are highly appreciated.
