kpdf dev anyone?

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday 14 March 2008, dario balozzi wrote:
> >  Did you try other PDF readers, btw?
>
> Evince: takes ~2 min to scan the entire document ( and don't freeze my PC )
> Acrobat Reader :  ~ Evince times and performance

on this laptop (2Ghz dual core system, standard laptopy SATA drive), acroread 
takes ~1s to pop up and show that document, okular ~2.5s (~.5s of that is 
okular start up time), kpdf from kde 3.5.9 takes a little over a second 
(1.3-ish?).

acroread takes ~90MB RSS, okular ~36MB RSS, kpdf ~34MB.

okular takes ~30s to search the document for "katakana", acroread takes ~18s, 
kpdf ~19s.

okular and kpdf has the benefit of a less screwed up UI and has nice features 
like opening the document to the page i last left it at.

alos keep in mind that my okular is built with debug symbols and was spewing a 
fair amount of debug output to konsole while doing this unscientific 
measurement.

so all in all, not bad. it seems there's a tradeoff: raw speed goes to 
acroread (though the real wall clock difference is a second here or there), 
but UI and memory usage goes to kpdf/okular.

if any of the above apps are taking 2 minutes to open that document, though, 
there's something rather fishy going on =)

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