Hello friends,

after having built 0.47 for Mac OS X 10.4, I got the feeling that it is quite a bit slower than 0.46 was. Now I tried to verify that suspicion (all done on a G4, 1350MHz, 960MB RAM):

Launching inkscape + X11: 047: 27s 046: 17s

Opening a very tiny SVG file (3350B), inkscape already open: 047: 4s 046: 2s

Opening a more complex SVG file, inkscape already open: 047: 5s 046: 4s

Importing a pdf file with lots of text, than selecting all and ungrouping all the contents (time is just for the ungrouping): 047: 16s 046: 8s

Probabely this is just an issue of my home brew thing - but maybe this is an issue which is more easily noticeable on such a slow machine like mine. So I'd be grateful if people on other platforms would cross-check that.

In the case it is a general issue it may be well worth to put some effort in fixing it in 048.

Greetings,

Wolf