[poppler] poppler vs foxit

[dE .]

Apparently yeah. Images are the only issue. This problem is with all pdf
programs for Linux (and all depend on poppler).

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, JustFillBug <mozbugbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On 2010-12-18, dE . <de.techno at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Foxit reader appears to be the fastest PDF reader in the industry, it
> seems
> > to be faster by many times than any other application available. The
> > scenario is such that at least I have to use Foxit simply cause it's a
> > necessity since applications which run on poppler take minutes to render
> the
> > same PDF what foxit does in a few seconds.
> >
> > So I was wondering if the poppler team is aware of this, although foxit
> is
> > avilable for Linux, but it'll be great if you could revile of secrets of
> > foxit.
> >
>
> I don't know about foxit, but when I use sysprof on evince, it seems
> that poppler spends most of its time on loading JPEG files. Apparently,
> decoding JPEG images inside PDF files are very slow, maybe it's just
> libjpeg was slow or the way poppler feeding libjpeg.
>
> But that's not the worst performance killer. What's kills the speed on
> evince is that evince try to preload 5-10 pages before it displays your
> current page. So every time you scroll back or forword a new page, you
> have to wait for it to finish the preloading of some other pages. Killed
> all the benefit of preloading.
>
> It should only preload pages on idle mode and when CPU load is low. If
> it detected the CPU load is up, it should stop the preload thing.
>
> No one cares how slow evince loading pages.
>
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