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Re: gv became really slow?
- From: FrÃdÃric Bron <frederic dot bron at m4x dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:25:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: gv became really slow?
> It used to be the case that opening a postscript file with gv on
> cygwin was more or less immediate. I've recently updated cygwin and
> now it takes about 2-5 seconds (a clock is displayed while gv is
> "thinking"). This happens even if the postscript file contains only a
> few words. For example, if you do:
>
> % echo hello > hello.txt
> % a2ps hello.txt -o hello.ps
> % gv hello.ps
>
> The gv version I have running is 3.6.5 (cygwin 1.5.25 on XP). I have
> no way of telling whether this is a cygwin problem or something else.
> But running the above example on a debian machine with a gv-3.6.5
> installed results in an immediate, much snappier, response.
>
> Is this just my problem? And if not, can something be done?
I confirm that gv is practically unusable since I updated to x.org
7.4. It is very very slow. For the example you give, it takes only 2
seconds to load (same version 3.6.5, Windows XP, Dual Core2 Duo 2.6
GHz) but on the large ps files I use it takes ages to show compared to
before I upgraded. This may be a problem of the X system so I forward
the email to the list.
FrÃdÃric Bron
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