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. [image: Inline image 1]
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Jon Evans <j...@craftyjon.com> 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 <kandre...@gmail.com> 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 <de...@latke.net> 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Remember The Past, Live The Present, Change The Future >> Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the >> future [JFK] >> >> kandre...@gmail.com >> Live Long and Prosper, >> Andrey >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > -- Remember The Past, Live The Present, Change The Future Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future [JFK] kandre...@gmail.com Live Long and Prosper, Andrey
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