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 >
