I'm trying to combine some halftone dots that were made through tiled clones, there are like 40k dots/clones total, so inkscape is getting pretty sluggish. in fact inkscape just times out,crashes, or freezes. would this be a slow CPU problem or just hitting the limits of inkscapes abilities? i have planned a CPU upgrade with in the next year or so. Currently i am using a Ryzen 5 1600. Also i am currently using the most recent master/dev version on windows 10. any suggestions will be helpful i think. other than combines two dots at a time. hahah.
I'm not surprised your system is stuttering. I run into this regularly when I import complex dxf and pdf files. In my experience, 40k shapes will certainly challenge Inkscape's computing capacity so I'll invoke the first law: More CPU power and more memory.
Inkscape is a single-threaded application so single core performance is more important than core count. There's no GPU acceleration so your graphics card doesn't help. A multi-threaded approach would be more responsive if the interface, geometry calculations, svg parsing, and rendering were separated but this is a major programming task. Not many of us need to manipulate tens of thousands of shapes and Inkscape performs adequately for the vast majority of users. It's unlikely that the developers will focus on this in the near term.
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I'm trying to combine some halftone dots that were made through tiled clones, there are like 40k dots/clones total, so inkscape is getting pretty sluggish. in fact inkscape just times out,crashes, or freezes. would this be a slow CPU problem or just hitting the limits of inkscapes abilities? i have planned a CPU upgrade with in the next year or so. Currently i am using a Ryzen 5 1600. Also i am currently using the most recent master/dev version on windows 10. any suggestions will be helpful i think. other than combines two dots at a time. hahah.
For this question, it might be an idea to ask in Inkscape chat in the Inkscape User channel.
There are a couple of users there who have experience with half toning, but they don't really post on the forum.
awesome thank you!
I'm not surprised your system is stuttering. I run into this regularly when I import complex dxf and pdf files. In my experience, 40k shapes will certainly challenge Inkscape's computing capacity so I'll invoke the first law: More CPU power and more memory.
Inkscape is a single-threaded application so single core performance is more important than core count. There's no GPU acceleration so your graphics card doesn't help. A multi-threaded approach would be more responsive if the interface, geometry calculations, svg parsing, and rendering were separated but this is a major programming task. Not many of us need to manipulate tens of thousands of shapes and Inkscape performs adequately for the vast majority of users. It's unlikely that the developers will focus on this in the near term.