Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:06:23 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Veiko Palge <veiko.palge@uni-konstanz.de> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: evince so slow (compared to kpdf etc)? Message-ID: <1144555583.26584.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1144492071.443790277c0df@webmail.uni-konstanz.de> References: <1144492071.443790277c0df@webmail.uni-konstanz.de>
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--=-GNvz+ru6Gw8oM6lvX+Pt Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 12:27 +0200, Veiko Palge wrote: >=20 > Hello,=20 >=20 > evince (0.4.0/gnome2.12/FBSD 6.0 or 0.5.2/gnome2.14/FBSD 6.1) takes > forever to render *some* pdf documents (with other it's as fast as > kpdf), for instance this one:=20 >=20 > http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/M743/M743.pdf >=20 > kpdf renders it in an instant, so does acrobat7. And: so does evince > itself (0.4.0/gnome2.12) on dragonflybsd! I dont have a linux > installation at hand to see how it works there.=20 >=20 > So it seems a FreeBSD specific thing to me --- can anyone confirm this?=20 > What might be the cause? =20 The only difference I see is that pkgsrc builds cairo with glitz support by default. However, building ciaro with glitz on FreeBSD does not affect rendering time. D-Fly and FreeBSD 6.X are very different operating systems. This may be some kind of pessimization in our read syscall, but I haven't really delved into it. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-GNvz+ru6Gw8oM6lvX+Pt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEOIg/b2iPiv4Uz4cRAk7xAJ42l3WebNUsFyf1yBrkuEjTQT+evACfbmbZ 0kLhfyRqaRX0uwiD3OPNBKc= =DPdS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GNvz+ru6Gw8oM6lvX+Pt--
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