On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > Le 03/09/2013 18:22, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > > >> I've seen references to this a few times and now curiosity has won me >> over: is there a high-level simple explanation for why "especially on >> Mac OS X" ? > > > No. For some reason painting seems to be very expensive there. Maybe because > we are not doing it right. > > There have also been cases in the past of some windows machines (?) being > very slow, but I do not know why. > > But maybe am I making this up, since Mac people complaints come also from > the fact that they have to enable car-by-char painting because of ligature > problems.
Strange. I guess in the end this must have to do with Qt's implementations. Scott