Since upgrading from 1.3 I have found things to be much slower, expecially in mathmode or tables: documents that were fine in 1.3 can be so slow that I can out-type the line very easily. Selection in mathmode is also very slow, which makes getting the parts of the equation you want really irritating.
This is a standard gentoo build. Is this a known problem: I do not see a lot of complaints about it on the list, but for me the slowdown since 1.3 is dramatic enough to make me consider reverting. Mike LyX 1.4.2 of Fri, Jul 13, 2006 Built on Aug 29 2006, 18:10:32 Configuration Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: aiksaurus pch use-aspell use-ispell C Compiler: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector -fno-stack-protector-all C++ Compiler: g++ (3.4.6) C++ Compiler LyX flags: -fno-exceptions C++ Compiler flags: -O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector -fno-stack-protector-all Linker flags: Linker user flags: Qt Frontend: Qt version: 3.3.6 Packaging: posix LyX binary dir: /usr/bin LyX files dir: /usr/share/lyx ldd /usr/bin/lyx linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0xb78c3000) libmng.so.1 => /usr/lib/libmng.so.1 (0xb7861000) liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0xb7833000) libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7815000) libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb77f0000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb77e8000) libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb77e4000) libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb77da000) libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb77d5000) libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xb77c3000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb77ba000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb778c000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb771c000) libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0xb76fb000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb76ec000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xb76da000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb76d1000) libAiksaurus-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libAiksaurus-1.2.so.0 (0xb76c5000) libaspell.so.15 => /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15 (0xb7628000) libgpm.so.1 => /lib/libgpm.so.1 (0xb7621000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7553000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb754a000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb7533000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb743f000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb743c000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7436000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7432000) libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7421000) libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb73fe000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb72e7000) libpng.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 (0xb72bf000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fdc000)