On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 21:35 -0400, gene glick wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > Polygons make stuff slow. > OK. That would be the planes. I don't too much there yet, but the ones > that are there overlap each other. > > > > Perhaps running with a compositing window manager makes things slow, > > (unsubstantiated suggestion to test without if you are using one). > > Compiz really messed up gschem performance until the drawing model was > > fixed. I "think" PCB's is ok though, (and I'm using compiz myself - with > > the GL branch) > What is that? I don't know.
See at the bottom of this email. > > I assume you're using the GTK HID. > > > Yep. Is lesstif any different, speed-wise? Oh, I am using KDE 3.5 > desktop - if that has any bearing. It shouldn't be (it was once upon a time when the GTK HID did some really silly things). > > Remind me which patches you're using? > > > > > Back around Christmas you sent me some fixes for the large number of > rats that I had (around 7000, I think). PCB bombed with all the rats. > Your patch fixed it up. Ok, I remember now. It sounds like a complex design. I'd never noticed that rat limit being hit before, so it may be that your board exercises PCB in a way which hasn't been tested or profiled for speed. > Also, my drawing space is large - around 40" X 50". That was just > required to get all the parts to disperse in some reasonable fashion. > Eventually, I hope to shrink this monster considerably. Any chance the > size of the board has anything to do with it? It _could_ be, but I doubt it. PCB uses some quite smart geometric data-structures to speed up object searches. I'd not 100% rule it out though. If you are able, send me a copy of the offending board via private email, and I'll see if I can nail down why it is going slowly. The GL code I was working on might help you though, it is generally faster at rendering stuff, and looks better as well! ;) git clone git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git cd pcjc2 <- (I think.. whatever dir the above cmd makes) git checkout -b before_pours origin/before_pours ./autogen.sh ./configure --disable-doc --enalble-gl --enable-dbus --prefix=/home/WHOEVER/gEDA (Set the prefix to wherever you want to install PCB.) OR: ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enalble-gl --enable-dbus --prefix=/home/WHOEVER/gEDA Since you've build PCB before, I don't expect this to be a big problem. "--enable-gl" is required on that branch though.. leaving it out gives a broken build. Then of course, build with: make make install You will need development packages installed for OpenGL, gtkglext, and all the usual suspects required for building PCB. Best regards, -- 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-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
