I'm not sure if it's coincidental with me upgrading to Slackware 12.2 (and a new version of kernel), but PCB has really slowed down. The screen repainting is painfully slow and it's particularly obvious when zooming in. I can press the "z" key perhaps 10 times, then go have a cup of coffee while it zooms in and does the repaint. The repainting of rats is also slow, which can be seen when the rats are visible and I move a part somewhere.
Previously, my design had around 3000 parts but I've reduced it by making a few smaller plug-in cards. I'm not sure of the current part count. I can say, that the more visible stuff is on the screen, the slower it becomes. So I can turn off the planes and things improve. Turn off the rats, again it improves. Once I am zoomed in enough that there's not too much extra stuff on the page, it is reasonably sporty. My version of PCB is 20081128 with a couple of patches from Peter Clifton. gene _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
