**HINT HINT... I WANT FEEDBACK ON THIS BRANCH ...HINT HINT** Now would be the time to grab a copy of the PCB+GL "before_pours" branch, and have a play to see how it impacts performance on your polygon-intensive board layouts.
git clone git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git git checkout -b before_pours origin/before_pours I've seen 170secs of clipping time at load -> 10secs on one board, which is nice. ;) Unfortunately, it makes the no-holes dicer much slower (due to the sort of polygon operation it tends to perform - and the extra costs of building / maintaining contour r-trees for all POLYAREA. The GL branch skirts the issue by introducing a new HID API to pass the PolygonType * directly to the render, which plucks out the contours which interesect the viewport and feeds them to the GLUtesselator. This is quite slow at full screen (e.g. probably similar to the current PCB performance - but I didn't benchmark to prove that assertion), and of course.. you don't get the benefit of the "no holes polygon" cache which I introduced in the branch to improve zooming / panning responsiveness (and any other operations which don't dirty the polygons). If you can stand ugly kludge, the top patch on my "local_customisation_no_pours" branch implements the extra transparent fill for polygons in thin-draw mode. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
