Follow-up Comment #2, bug #63280 (project gv):
It works quickly for me on Fedora 36 with gv 3.7.4 from my git clone and gs
10.00.0.
Try running
time gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=x11 sam...@file.pdf -c quit
On my laptop, it shows the pages and exits in 0.2 seconds.
If it takes much longer for you, the problem is gs (ghostscript) not gv.
When I run the gs command above, I get the errors below. gv and gs are
unpredictable on corrupt files. See if you can make a PDF with no errors that
takes much longer in gv than gs.
The following errors were encountered at least once while processing this
file:
error executing PDF token
**** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
**** The file was produced by:
**** >>>> �� <<<<
**** Please notify the author of the software that produced this
**** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF
**** specification.
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