Bug#350553: ghostscript: major slowdown after upgrade

[Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:33:17PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> tags 350553 + moreinfo
> quit
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> Marc Lehmann wrote:
> 
> > Same problem here, an image that rendered in <1s before now takes 9
> > seconds here.
> 
> This is very valuable to learn.  Did the speed ever come back up again
> or was the slowdown permanent?  (Please forgive my ignorance.)

I downgraded and of course had the speed back then, but now i upgraded to
squeeze and the slowdown is as horrible as before.

also, this seems to be a very common issue, there are lots of reports about
people having printing issues because gs takes a long time now, for ps that
was fast to print before. it seems upstream thinks that this is a
ubuntu/debian issue, and some people have reported that downloading and
building upstream results in a fast ghostscript.

I guess after so much time i just have to live with the 30+ times
slowdown, as I don't have the time to investigate at the moment, but the
slowdown is universal, for everything (whether it be a printed image,
gnuplot output etc.).


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