Just downloaded and tried it out. I'm using the most simplest functions of just getting status so I'm not a good measure of whether any other functionality is broken, but I am using the API and not web scraping. It definitely seems faster so far, and you can tell the refresh is working on multiples as they used to fill in one by one, now it's in groups of 4 or so just like you mentioned.
We've got 50+ Ants being monitored, and it takes about 10 seconds now to go through all of them, whereas it used to be more than double that, close to 30 seconds for a full refresh. This is on a Win7 VM with 2 vCPU's. I can bump the vCPU to 4 and see if it makes any difference as well.
Thank you. I think I've worked out all the multi-threaded issues in this version. Now I need to clean up the code, get the web scraping working, make sure everything works, and add the ability to control the number of worker threads, and this will become the next stable version. I may include revising the scanning in this version too, depends on how much time I have.
After that I intend to completely revise the Ant configuration methodology. That should address the rest of the outstanding issues and requests.
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