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[Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jon,

I'll test it tomorrow, kicad is downloading painfully slow.
Primarily, last time I tested it, it was because of large resolution
display and zooming/panning, dragging.
I have not noticed slowdown issues on my macbook pro in other programs.
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is *everything* slow on your Mac, or just some things?
>
> I have a Mac that I try to test on when I can, although I do my primary
> development on a Linux machine. I have tried to make sure that GerbView is
> as fast on Mac OS as it is on Linux and in my testing, recent versions are
> basically there.
>
> I don't do much schematic work on Mac but I've done some things in pcbnew
> and don't notice much performance issues.
>
> If you can report specific actions or give example files that are much
> slower on Mac than on other platforms, if will be very helpful for
> improving performance.
>
> Re. Andy's email, yes the raytracer is slow, and there's probably room to
> make it faster! I don't think this is a MacOS specific thing.
>
> -Jon
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 23:09 Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Frankly, everything on MacOS is slow in KiCad from 3D to layout to
>> schematic, panning and zooming is horrendous.
>> It's probably been 2 months since I tried anything on MacOS, and there
>> have been more than a few improvements committed, but I'm not holding my
>> breath. Especially since schematic isn't using OpenGL and will be
>> re-written for v6.
>>
>> I'll try to check the nightlies tomorrow to see how well it works on my
>> 5K display as well as just on the Retina display.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> This is probably way low on the list of priorities …
>>>
>>> On a 2017 MacBook Pro (Retina, touch bar, 16 GB RAM, with the Radeon 555
>>> graphics), the "Render current view using Raytracing" is ludicrously slow,
>>> as in it takes about a minute to render a “simple” design (front panel
>>> thing with LEDs and buttons).
>>>
>>> I admit that I didn’t know what that blue cube in the 3D viewer’s
>>> toolbar was for. I guess it’s really a tesseract.
>>>
>>> Anyway, it re-draws the display and then when you zoom or pan it reverts
>>> back to the original rendering (which is quite fast).
>>>
>>> -a
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Application: kicad
>>> Version: (5.0.0-rc2-dev-26-g0d794b2), release build
>>> Libraries:
>>>     wxWidgets 3.0.4
>>>     libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
>>> Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 17.4.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
>>> Build Info:
>>>     wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
>>>     Boost: 1.61.0
>>>     Curl: 7.43.0
>>>     Compiler: Clang 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1002
>>>
>>> Build settings:
>>>     USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
>>>     USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
>>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
>>>     BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>>>     KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
>>>     KICAD_SPICE=ON
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>> Live Long and Prosper,
>> Andrey
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Live Long and Prosper,
Andrey