Re: gEDA-user: PCB is extremely slow

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:35:29PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 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.

This is Xt version

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