Some more exact figures:
Opening Preferences pane:
1.5b2 -- 4s
QT43 -- 3s
Scrolling through an about 30 pp document, floats closed:
1.5b2 -- 39s (arrow down), 2m 54s (scroll-arrow)
QT43 -- 34s (arrow down), 1m 54s (scroll-arrow)
writing a long text in a lyx note (I wrote just that text and the
rendering finished long after my writing):
1.5b2 -- 14s
QT43 -- 10s
/Anders
On 24 apr 2007, at 23.36, Anders Ekberg wrote:
On 24 apr 2007, at 16.56, Bennett Helm wrote:
Anders: can you try this and, if successful, report on PPC
performance?)
Compiled fine (didn't try the patch, but the "manual" approach)
with QT4.3 snapshot (20070422) and a current svn version of LyX
(rev 17952).
Text and floats seem snappier to me in a reasonably large document
(some 30 pp with figures). Typing in LyX-notes are still slow, but
seem faster than with 4.2.3. Dialogues (e.g. Preferences are rather
slow (I see a "beach ball" for a short time on my machine), but I
don't think slower than before.
A strange thing is that the running text is in sans-serif (the
document is a Koma-script article, so the headers are expected to
be in sans-serif), but I don't know if that is my configuration, qt
or LyX. Setting to Times New Roman in the preferences gives the
expected appearance, whereas specifying Times gives a sans-serif font.
I posted a copy at http://www.charmec.chalmers.se/temp/
LyX15_QT43PPC.zip if someone likes to play around (slow internet-
connection here, so it won't be fully uploaded until about midnight
CET).
/Anders
