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Re: Mac OS X Performance Questions

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On 7/20/11 1:37 PM, Fred Cooke wrote:

Hi, I tried it, but the performance was still abysmal. I find it
unusable. Scrolling and zooming are one frame per second and it really
disrupts anything that you are trying to do.
The native performance on Mac OS X compared to Windows and Linux is a very big difference. 


A friend of mine, who is a Mac lover, created this for testing, it's
made with "winebottler" and works acceptably. I just fired it up at the
same time as your custom one to compare performance with the same
machine load/available cpu time and it is really night and day.

Excuse the win UI. If the download disappears, let me know, I will
upload it to my server instead.

200 meg http://sorsacode.com/KiCad.app.zip
I tried it, and it is not bad at all if you want something that just works (That is why I still have Mac OS X noted as experimental on the kicad wiki). It draws tons faster then the native build (even with the X11 dependency). 


Regards,

Fred.
Good luck, and maybe in some time the native build will have the same performance as on the other platforms. 


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Marco Serantoni
<marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    Try this one http://www.mdx4.org/uploads/kicad/Kicad-20-MAY-2011.zip

    This uses an hacked version of wx-widgets to enable the Native
    wxOverlay, the result is a working Kicad with some small issues but
    i think still usable.

    This was possible after the fix of some problems with the UserScale
    ( http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/13216 ) now in the svn tree.

    Still missing a native wxOverlay implementation under Cocoa:
    http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/12894
    (The default implemented flickers)

    --
    Marco



    On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@xxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:fred.cooke@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

        OK, back from the shops!

        kicad_osx_v3009_STABLE

        It was some daily build, I think. I'm sure you know where from.

        I suspected that it was a wx issue. Can you give me a link to pester
        the wx devs? I will happily be their tester too :-)

        I have a project of my own and a bunch of people, at least two
        of whom
        are reading this use or want to use Kicad to design PCBs for it.

        One of my biggest fans is a Mac fan, which is how I ended up with a
        Mac, he'll be happy if it works reasonably on them too.

        Regards,

        Fred.

        On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Marco Serantoni
        <marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx>>
        wrote:
         >
         > On 15/lug/2011, at 15.39, Fred Cooke wrote:
         > Fred,
         > About which version you are referring to, picked from where ?
         > And which test you have done ?
         >
         > Cause is Know,
         > wx-widgets related vs XOR (un)support on OSX, workarounded
        with wxOverlay that is not correctly implemented under wxCoccoa too.
         > ask to wx-developers.
         >
         > Regards,
         >  Marco
         >
         >> Hello All,
         >>
         >> A few weeks ago I tried KiCad on OS X and although eeschema
        appeared
         >> to work OK, pcbnew was unusably slow (0.3fps scrolling or
        zooming in
         >> 2d, 3d, which I just, tried is acceptable). I assume that you're
         >> already aware of this, and as such I have the following
        questions:
         >>
         >> Is the cause known?
         >> If not, is it being looked for?
         >> If so, is it being worked on?
         >> If so, estimated date of completion?
         >>
         >> If my assumption about this being a known issue was wrong,
        can I do
         >> something to provide feedback more formally?
         >>
         >> Thank you for your time!
         >>
         >> Regards,
         >>
         >> Fred.
         >>
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