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[Vesa Solonen <vsolonen@...>]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:

> I think we need to start by asking this question: "Is this problem
> specific to Kicad or is it general to wxWidgets?"

With my limited understanding it seems there is both to blame. WxDC is not 
up to efficient complex drawing and Kicad draws everything without caching 
or grouping graphics primitives. Dot grid drawing code is a very good 
example.

Running Pcbnew on profiler shows interesting results at least.

-Vesa