> It used to be the case that opening a postscript file with gv on > cygwin was more or less immediate. I've recently updated cygwin and > now it takes about 2-5 seconds (a clock is displayed while gv is > "thinking"). This happens even if the postscript file contains only a > few words. For example, if you do: > > % echo hello > hello.txt > % a2ps hello.txt -o hello.ps > % gv hello.ps > > The gv version I have running is 3.6.5 (cygwin 1.5.25 on XP). I have > no way of telling whether this is a cygwin problem or something else. > But running the above example on a debian machine with a gv-3.6.5 > installed results in an immediate, much snappier, response. > > Is this just my problem? And if not, can something be done?
I confirm that gv is practically unusable since I updated to x.org 7.4. It is very very slow. For the example you give, it takes only 2 seconds to load (same version 3.6.5, Windows XP, Dual Core2 Duo 2.6 GHz) but on the large ps files I use it takes ages to show compared to before I upgraded. This may be a problem of the X system so I forward the email to the list. Frédéric Bron -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
