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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is interesting.  I have a board, that is two layers, not a huge number
of components, that renders much, much slower than the coldfire board, but
it appears the coldfire board is is definitely more complicated.

I cannot share the board easily right now as it is contracted work for a
customer.

I will see if I can profile this better myself.  I will also see if the
people who have reported this to me have boards they can share.

Adam Wolf

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier <
stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> can we base this on a little bit more more (comparable) facts?
> A given board, zoom factor, use-case.
>
> I just tried my own 6270 build vs. your 6271 on one of my boards, and I
> don’t see any real difference with zoom-change or panning.
>
> I tried the coldfire demo board then.
> To be comparable, I do one pan step at zoom 2.2 via left/right arrow keys.
> This takes about ~1s on my late 2012 MacBook Pro 13” Retina (2.5GHz i5) in
> a fullscreen window.
> Of course, this makes panning via scrollbar very jumpy.
>
> The more you zoom in, the better it gets.
> On OpenGL canvas it is updating instantaneously, but it doesn’t make such
> a big step on one key press like the default canvas (don’t know if that
> matters).
>
> I really can’t tell if things got worse, because I normally only do
> smaller 2 layer boards.
> Although not being lightning fast also with those, it never was that bad
> to say “you can’t work with it”.
>
> Maybe it is also just personal taste.
> With the cold fire board it is for sure not nice, but also no showstopper
> for me.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
> On 19 Oct 2015, at 16:05, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> A few folks have reported that the OS X builds have slow performance in
> the legacy canvas.  This also happens to me. :)
>
> I know that Bernhard and most of the other OS X devs on this list don't
> have this problem.  However, I suspect many of them aren't using the OS X
> nightlies.
>
> If you aren't having legacy OS X rendering issues, and aren't using a
> nightly, could you maybe try out a nightly and see if the performance is
> similar between the two?  http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org/osx/
>
> Thanks!
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> W&L
>
>
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