On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 07:48:18 PM Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 07:29:50 AM Paul Emsley wrote:
> >
> > The font rendering of Coot has been niggling me for a while. I have
> > noticed a slowdown in the FPS when labels are added, but not perhaps as
> > much as you suggest.
> >
> > The standard coot spin test is to load the tutorial data and map, zoom
> > in until the map touches the edge of the screen, turn on the
> > Frames/Second counter and Draw -> Spin View and watch the status bar.
>
>
> Following that recipe:
>
> Tutorial map spin in square window with full screen height: 16.6 frames/sec
> Click on one atom to display label: 1.55 frames/sec
That by the way was benchmarked with the ccp4 6.4 binary for coot.
Using the binary I built myself I get
no labels: 22.9 frames/sec
1 label: 2.2 frames/sec
Still a factor of 10 but it's about 50% faster.
Ethan
> So more than a factor of 10 speed difference with/without text.
>
> Ethan
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