hi all

i also find lyx 1.4 on linux slow. i have a fairly fast box, but copy n
paste is slow compared to 1.3.6. also scrolling in a document with lots of
graphics seem slow.



martin

On 09/03/06, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mar 9, 2006, at 2:37 AM, Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > compared to LyX 1.3.6 which I used before, the new version is
> > _quite_ slow for me in rendering documents with a fair amount of
> > graphics and formulas (talking about a 10page document with maybe
> > 15 200K-eps-files) and some formulas.
> >
> > Already when opening the document, the CPU load goes to maximum,
> > and LyX into "not responding" (Spinball) mode for a couple of
> > seconds. Scrolling in the document becomes painfull, as it takes
> > forever, with spinballs inbetween.
> >
> > LyX 1.4.0 for Mac on PB G4 (1,5GHz, 1GB RAM), fully patched Tiger.
> >
> > It seems to me as if the scheduling for rendering the formulas and
> > generating the graphic-previews was changed, with a side effect of
> > decreasing responsiveness.
> >
> > I know that all this heavily depends on many external programms (I
> > updated Fink recently). So: anybody else observing this? Ideas how
> > to speed it up again?
> >
> > I like the new features in 1.4 (!!!), so I wouldn't be happy to
> > move back again...
>
> There are performance problems on Mac. (I've just updated the wiki
> page -- <http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac> to reflect the
> announcement of 1.4, and this is one of the issues I mention there.)
> For me, what's most annoying with LyX/Mac 1.4.0 is working in insets
> like footnotes: typing and editing is quite slow. Scrolling speed is
> also an issue.
>
> There is a preliminary patch for this issue that is currently
> undergoing testing, and we are trying to make other speed
> improvements as well.
>
> Bennett
>

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