UDDF crash

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 02:43:50PM +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 3 November 2015 at 06:24, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would not be surprised, if there was still something more lurking around...
> 
> yours and Linus' patches make the file work.
> i'm sure everyone has noticed that the parsing of this file slow as
> heck, though...and it locks the UI, which could make the user think
> the app has hanged. :\

Yes, this definitely needs some kind of progress indicator.

A secondary concern would be some profiling to figure out WHY it takes so
bloody long, but frankly, this is a corner case / rare use case so I'm not
as worked up about this. But we definitely need a progress indicator.

> like mentioned in one of my previous emails there is something wrong
> when parsing depths. i get a lot of:
> "Strange depth reading NaN m"
> 
> probably due to some of the samples in the XSLT output being:
> <sample time="" depth="NaN m"/>

Miika, can we just skip those? A depth that is Not a Number isn't really
all that interesting...

And please, don't get me started on software that writes shit like this
into a data file.

/D