On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 03:55:50PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > I really wonder why lyx 1.5.2 (official installer) is even faster than > 1.6 on Windows, whereas the Cygwin version suffers the same problem as > on *nix. I'll try to build 1.5 using mingw and report back.
A mingw build of 1.5.3svn is as fast as the MSVC build. So, this seems to be a problem related to the *nix version of Qt4. My Qt4/Cygwin is a hybrid *nix/Win, so the problem must lie in the difference between the *_unix.cpp and *_win.cpp Qt4 source files. Oh, my... Notwithstanding this, 1.6 is much better than 1.5 on *nix. So, hats off, Abdel ;-) -- Enrico