gEDA-dev: Double buffering in PCB

[Peter Clifton]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:09 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > I've not noticed any obvious improvement in performance, nor any
> > obvious redraw artifacts (I presume PCB double buffers internally,
> > however I've not looked! The PC I'm using is quite fast though, and
> > I never found GTK PCB slow. Is it useful for someone with a slower
> > machine available to see if this helps?
> 
> Compare with the lesstif build, which uses explicit double buffering
> only.
> 
> You can also test some things by forwarding your X connection to a
> remote machine.

I've tried that as you suggested, and can't notice any difference. I
think the double buffering is server-side anyway, so will likely show up
most on a slow X server.

I'll try against the lesstif build now.

Peter