Re: [Kicad-developers] GAL rendering performance

2018-11-03 Thread Maciej Suminski
Hi Jeff, On 11/3/18 4:29 PM, Jeff Young wrote: [snip] > Are vertexes allocated per group? Each group gets a contiguous memory area. This way a group is drawn from cache (video memory) just by specifying offset and size of the chunk storing the associated vertexes. And is the whole text item a gr

[Kicad-developers] Remove shebang from footprint wizard plugin to fix fedora rawhide build issues

2018-11-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
Hello It seems that we have a footprint wizard plugin which specifies a shebang when we don't really want or need this. I have attached a patch to bring the touch slider one in line with the others. For reference, see https://github.com/KiCad/fedora-packaging/pull/20 Regards Nick Østergaard From

[Kicad-developers] GAL rendering performance

2018-11-03 Thread Jeff Young
When re-drawing a board we spend most of the time drawing the text, and most of that time reserving 6 vertexes at a time. Are vertexes allocated per group? And is the whole text item a group? Would it be faster to reserve by character or by text item? Cheers, Jeff. ___