Re: gEDA-user: PCB is extremely slow

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 7, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> I am editing Ronja Twister
> http://ronja.twibright.com/schematics/twister.pcb
> And it sometimes takes 30 seconds to redraw (during which PCB doesn't
> react). My machine has 1500MHz CPU and 0.5GB of RAM and nothing
> CPU intensive is running there besides.
>
> Do you have also this problem? Is it possible to optimize PCB somehow
> to not grind down this way? I can't imagine making a 8-layer 
> motherboard
> in this, it would take like 1 year to redraw...

  Someone ought to ship Karel a nice UltraSPARC...It runs great on my 
Ultra-60. =)

  Though I must say the gtk version is FAR less responsive than the Xt 
version...the price we pay for nicer user interfaces.

          -Dave

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