>>>>> "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bennett> Rob kindly provided me with his config.log and the lyx Bennett> application he compiled to see what the differences were. I was about to suggest that. Bennett> His version does run much faster on my machine than mine Bennett> does, though fast typing still pegs processor usage at the Bennett> maximum and there is a *slight* delay before text appears on Bennett> the screen. So it is probably not very different from linux version. Bennett> Why the difference? Bennett> From what I can tell, it comes down to this. Rob is using Bennett> Mac OS X 10.4 (=Darwin 8.0.0), whereas I use 10.3.9 (= Darwin Bennett> 7.9.0). Do you use the same Qt version? Is it compiled in the same way? Bennett> However, one effect of the difference is that, whereas I need Bennett> to set "--disable-concept-checks" to get lyx to configure for Bennett> me (or it complains about ostream, istream, etc. being Bennett> present but not usable), Rob does not. So at least one bug in Bennett> Apple's version of gcc-3.3 has been fixed. This check is only for errors at compile time. It should not ahve any effect on performance. Bennett> Nonetheless, producing a time profile of Rob's version of lyx Bennett> shows pretty much what mine shows: way too much time is being Bennett> spent in lengthcombo.C (about 65% of total time). So merely Bennett> switching to a newer version of gcc doesn't solve the Bennett> underlying problem. Rob, could you try to run LyX under Tiger's Shark.app? The time in lengthcombox.C does not seem to make sense to me. Bennett, what is your version of shark.app and of Xcode? Did you check for updates (I think I already asked this question...)? JMarc
