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Re: gEDA-user: PCB is extremely slow

I tried twister.pcb on my machine with both the Xt and GTK versions.


- the Xt version takes less than one second to redraw, but is slow
enough to make panning operations awkward.
- the GTK version redraws at least twice as fast; panning is smooth and
easy.
- thin draw mode does not help at all; in fact I think it makes it
slower.
- turning off the solder and component layers helps greatly.


Matt


--- Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> 
> CL<
> 



	

	
		
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