I am on build 9 March, win32.
I noticed that it seems to take a variable time to bring up the Tutorial file and the Keys and Mouse file. Chasing it a bit further I got into "low on virtual memory" messages from windows and then crashes.
Details using Tutorial file.
1 Start Inkscape from scratch. Call up Tutorial. Takes about 7s to appear. Repeat from scratch. Tutorial takes about 5s. Repeat from scratch. Tutorial takes about 7s.
2 Start up Inkscape from scratch. First call up takes about 7s. Close that page and call up again takes 35s. Close and call up takes 25s. Close and call up takes 55s Close and call up gives me a "low on virtual memory" message.
Repeating that sequence gives me 5s, 40s, 30s, 50, 90s "virtual memory too low" message.
Details with Keys and Mouse file.
1 First call takes 30s, second call 65s, third call 65s, system hangs.
Repeat.
First call 30s, second call 65s, third call 3+ minutes, system hangs.
When the system hangs it really hangs. As in power off to fix!!
After a couple of calls of the Tutorial file, but before crash, I tried to use the Freehand tool and it gave very erratic performance indeed. Sometimes no curves, sometimes small straight sections instead of curves etc. Not a good scene.
cheers, vellum