performance 0.47 vs. 0.46

[Wolf]

0.47 for Mac OS X 10.4 seems to be quite a bit slower than 0.46 was. I tried to verify that
suspicion (all done on a G4, 1350MHz, 960MB RAM):

Launching inkscape + X11:
047: 27s
046: 17s

Opening a very tiny SVG file (3350B), inkscape already open:
047: 4s
046: 2s

Opening a more complex SVG file, inkscape already open:
047: 5s
046: 4s

Importing a pdf file with lots of text, than selecting all and
ungrouping all the contents (time is just for the ungrouping):
047: 16s
046: 8s

This is partially confirmed by Alvin Penner Feb 06, 2010:
Comparison, on Windows XP, of time required to start Inkscape. Time to load is based on 100% CPU usage, not on the appearance of the visual display, which happens faster.

Inkscape 0.47pre1 (Jul 3 2009) - 7 seconds
Inkscape 0.47 r22583 (Nov 21 2009) - 22 seconds

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

just for curiosity, could you attach the .pdf file that you are using for ungrouping?

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Yes, 0.47 is slower than 0.46.
The ungroup test is not that bad on my computer though... (only 20%).

[Pedro Gauna (lapega)]

Also happens in Ubuntu (Karmic and Lucid)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

duplicate of bug #488247 “Inkscape 0.47 is slow starting”?

[Pablo Rodríguez (ousia)]

I don't think it is a duplicate, since inkscape-0.46 was also slow on Mandriva.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

@Pablo - do you mean
your report (bug #593269) is not a duplicate of bug #522767,
or this report (bug #522767) is not a duplicate of bug #488247?

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

As this is comparing two obsolete versions of Inkscape this isn't that relevant to current development, though we do try to improve performance where possible. In any case there is another bug report about slow performance with Inkscape 0.91/0.92 in bug 1674397.

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/Qantas94Heavy