On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:35:29 +0300 Arthur A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Neidorff wrote: > > On Monday 14 July 2008 10:20 pm, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > >> Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > >>> In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his > >>> acrobat reader performs a lot faster. > >> Are your machines comparable processor- and RAM-wise? > >> > >> (sorry for not answering your actual question) > >> > >> - chris > > > > On windows acrobat preloads part of the program on boot. (It just > > sits taking up ram waiting for you to use it) That's why it > > appears to start much more quickly. > > > > > > I think the issue isn't so much with how fast the program starts up > (I have a hard time believing even with preload it loads faster), > rather, it's likely more to do with the caching that adobe does in > the background of pages you haven't yet tried to view. I suspect, > though I honestly haven't looked into it, that adobe caches pages a > lot more while xpdf or evince or what have you simply load it upon > request. > > Perhaps this is an avenue to explore further. > > Yes that is exactly what is probably going on. Because with xpdf it takes around ~2 seconds to redraw/cache when i scroll through the document. I tried exploring this further and it seems like it is an issue with the cairo backend. Compiling cairo with OpenGL support looks like a promising approach. http://www.cairographics.org/OpenGL/ Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
