On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 20:01, bulia byak wrote:

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• Like 0.39, very large paths (4000 nodes) are very slow, especially during

zoom and when I go into node-edit-mode (inkscape spends a lot of time drawing stuff that's off-screen).

Yes it's a problem. We need to do more optimization in one of the future versions.

I have some specific ideas for algorithms to reduce the repainting burden. I'll try to document them sometime soon.

Strictly speaking, when performing individual node edits it should only be necessary to redraw maybe four path segments at most.

-mental