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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Apparently even eeschema is unusable on this particular setup. :(

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 06:08:44PM -0600, Adam Wolf wrote:
> IIRC, OS X doesn't have an XOR draw mode.
> 
> After a certain size PCB, PCBnew legacy graphics on OS X is unusable.  This
> size is much lower than it is in Linux, on the same hardware.
> 
> Someone awesome on the list, I forget who right now, did some profiling and
> fixed a wx issue that was causing some slowness, and I used the profiler a
> bit more after that and was unable to find substantial increases with the
> same technique.
> 
> Adam Wolf
> 
> Okay, this is just a quick call for information for now, not sure if this
> is a known issue (and I'm relaying from a friend, don't have one here to
> test) - have any OSX users noticed some severe slowness in the legacy
> graphics (including eeschema) while panning, zooming, and picking up and
> moving objects? This is on a relatively recent (2014, IIRC, and another
> 2015) Macbook. Apparently it's borderline unusable.
> 
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