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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

to be honest, I don’t really know what this is about.

@Andrey:
You looked for a very complex (foreign) project (Chris mainboard?) to prove that eeschema is slow on Mac?
Well, we know that and we told you already some weeks/months ago why it is like it is (if memory serves me right).

Or, do you have an own project that is so ridiculously slow, that you can’t work with it?
If so, please provide it so that we can analyse why this specific project behaves like that.
If you can’t or don’t want to provide it we could tell you how to do some performance measurements so that we might see something.

Obviously, there are a number of Mac users here and also over at the KiCad forum who might also be happy to get some more performance here and there, but who are in general reasonably able to work on their projects (including myself, on a 2012 Retina MacBook with only an i5).


Regards,
Bernhard

> On 2. Mar 2018, at 17:59, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Mar 1, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Andrey-
>> 
>> I'm moving this to a new thread so that we don't conflate the OpenMP discussion with this.
>> 
>> Can you test running Kicad with the "Open in Low Resolution" mode enabled?  You can activate this by choosing "Get Info" on the main KiCad application and checking the option that says "Open in Low Resolution".  You may need to do the same for the other applications (Eeschema, pcbnew, etc) as well.
> 
> testing on my 2017” touch-bar MBP … 
> 
> Good g-d, low-res mode looks fuzzy and weird!
> 
> I don’t notice any specific differences in EESchema performance. Maybe my schematic isn’t busy enough? I’m a fan of using more smaller sheets with less info on each than one big sheet with everything.
> 
> I know, anecdote is not evidence.
> 
> -a
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>> 
>> -Seth
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>> ​​2018-03-01 18:09 GMT-08:00 Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> So for now I've had a chance to test the motherboard project on my Retina macbook display.
>> eeschema: horrible zoom, feels like elastic band zoom and I have all scroll wheel accelerations and similar disabled, zoom response is super laggy, cannot work like this, will need to make schematics on windows.
>> pcbnew by order of slowness:
>> legacy - pretty slow, zoom lag is major, boo boo
>> modern (fallback) - decent, but the lag can be felt, zoom lag is minor
>> modern (accelerated) - almost cannot feel the lag, very nice, nice zoom responsiveness
>> 
>> I'll report tomorrow on 5K LG display.
>> ​
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