Modified default settings to enable some often unused features, changed default image output to png, various performance increasing options on by default at moderate settings. Upscaling and background removal enabled by default so they're visible on the image options panel. Changed default extra networks view to cover with 100% height, sidebar changed to 60% width by default from 35%.
- Added FS dir/path mechanism to 'modules.modelloader'
- Refactored 'modules.modelloader.load_models' to use the cache
- Refactored 'modules.ui_extra_networks.find_*' methods to use the cache
- Added progress indicator to 'modules.ui_extra_networks.create_html'
The cache, as implimented, will always ensure it is up-to-date (per 'directory_has_changed') and significantly improves loading speed (when used with 'model_loader' and the 'find_*' methods) with large model directories.
Overall load speed tested with ~10k models (mix of checkpoints, loras, lycoris, and embeddings) and ~40k secndary files (images, descriptions, CivitAI Info, etc). Loading speeds went from ~1 hour and 45 minutes to ~5 minutes.
Confounding variable to loading speeds: this is over a fiber-attached storage device. Connection is 10gbe full-duplex, remote source has an NVMe raid cache. Saturation of the network is the norm, but laintency is a factor. Regardless, small-scale local-storage testing also shows measurable improvements, so this should be a welcome addition.
Vladimir Mandic
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Disty0
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