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Calibre ebook reader/editor/creator reaches 2.0 milestone

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Can we get a little better performance? (Score: 2, Interesting)

by reziac@pipedot.org on 2014-08-23 20:46 (#410)

On a middle-aged machine (a little low on CPU but plenty of RAM), Calibre can take up to two MINUTES to start. It can take equally long to load a 1mb PDF or a 500k epub. (It does somewhat better on .mobi files.) When I go to page down, it often stalls for up to half a minute. I like the fact that it's capable of handling so many file formats, but lordy, the patience it's extracted from me in return...

Re: Can we get a little better performance? (Score: 2, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-23 22:23 (#411)

Somebody - maybe you? - mentioned this on an earlier post. I'm surprised! I don't have a great machine - Intel Core Duo, I think, with 2G of RAM. It runs just fine. I wouldn't want to run it on a Pentium 4 I'm sure. I'm not disputing your experience, just surprised. I think it runs a huge number of complicated Python scripts behind the scenes.

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2014-08-23 22:41 Interesting +1 tdk@pipedot.org

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