On 6/10/05 9:36 AM, "Bennett Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, frankly, the difference in speed introduced with the fontcache > patch is trivial compared to the slowness of lyx-140 overall: it really > is unusable on the Mac, and something else must account for the > slowness. > > I'd love to help fix this, but I need guidance. Apparently Shark's > profiling -- as I'm doing it, at least -- isn't providing the needed > data. If there is another tool I should use that others are more > familiar with, let me know, and I'll do what I can. (gprof, e.g., is > already on my machine.) > > Bennett >
I've been building 1.4 on the Mac (against qt-mac-free-3.3.4) for comparison purposes but I haven't seen any glaring perf problems. Forgive me if I'm confusing the issue by not having followed this thread carefully, but I've run the latest build on a 512MB Mac Mini and a 768MB G4 Powerbook, loaded up the User's Guide, copied and pasted it a couple of times to make a bigger file, and find no discernable degradation in responsiveness when I type in random places. I was curious after having read that 1.4 Mac is unusable. Am I missing something? Assuming not, I'd be curious to know what the memory configuration of Bennett's machine is. Is it possible that the issue isn't one of code perf but of swapping? Thanks Rob
