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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 09:46:25AM +0200, jp charras wrote:
> [[snip]]
> But the main reason is the fact on Opengl I am easily out of memory with large boards, with 4Go of
> RAM (W7 32 bits).
> I am thinking this is due to memory fragmentation.
> 
> I am afraid we have more easily this issue if Eeschema + Pcbnew + other frames use OpenGL.
> 
> Cairo do not have this issue.
> [[snip]]

Perhaps there is some memory leak or similar issue in the OpenGL GAL code that
should be fixed, rather than just avoiding it?