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@ -3,9 +3,13 @@ Copyright - Yehowshua Immanuel
# A High performance, VCD Parser written in Rust # A High performance, VCD Parser written in Rust
## Current Features ## Current Features
- pretty fast, parses 3.04 GB VCD file in ~67s on M1 Macbook Air with - pretty fast, parses 3.04 GB VCD file in ~54s on M1 Macbook Air with
respect to 50s with GTKWave on the same device. FastWave currently respect to 50s with GTKWave on the same device. FastWave currently
offers highly robust error handling which GTKWave doesn't have. offers highly robust error handling which GTKWave doesn't have.
I noticed that when running FastWave in the VsCode terminal as opposed
to the MacOS system terminal or the Lapce terminal, FastWave takes 67s
to parse the 3.04GB file.
# Current Limitations # Current Limitations
@ -31,16 +35,14 @@ sure that the parser gives useful/sane errors.
Here's a command to test on a malformed VCD: Here's a command to test on a malformed VCD:
`cargo run --release test-vcd-files/VCD_file_with_errors.vcd` `cargo run --release test-vcd-files/VCD_file_with_errors.vcd`
Should work well on Linux. On MacOS, remove `release` for line numbers
in error, see
[here](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/4490#issuecomment-1205611137).
`cargo run test-vcd-files/VCD_file_with_errors.vcd`
# TODO # TODO
## Features ## Features
- [ ] macro for getting line number when propagating errors
- [ ] re-order all signal timelines as binary balanced trees with respect to timestamps - [ ] re-order all signal timelines as binary balanced trees with respect to timestamps
- support multithreaded re-ordering - support multithreaded re-ordering
- [ ] looks into making a macro for filename and linenumber later
- [ ] Print out git commit or release number. - [ ] Print out git commit or release number.
- [ ] Should be able to load waveform whilst viewing it live. - [ ] Should be able to load waveform whilst viewing it live.
- could be quite challenging to implement for various reasons - could be quite challenging to implement for various reasons