Re: Gnumeric increasingly slow while editing

[Wiebe Cazemier <wiebe halfgaar net>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wiebe Cazemier" <wiebe halfgaar net>
> To: "Morten Welinder" <mortenw gnome org>
> Cc: "Gnumeric Mailing List" <gnumeric-list gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, 9 November, 2015 7:09:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Gnumeric increasingly slow while editing
>
> Unforunately, this does not seem to be it. I occasionally get "Clipboard
> successfully claimed." And then "Lost clipboard ownership." when I copy in
> another application.
>
> BTW. When I press the sequence "3-enter-3-enter-3-enter" to enter values at
> about 2 to 3 keystrokes per second, gnumeric hovers around 70% CPU. This
> when I just opened an existing spreadsheet. It's about 25% for a new one.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wiebe

I was trying to build a recent git clone, but Linux Mint 17 (newest) is only new enough to compile 1.12.9. 
And then I had problems running from the build dir because it couldn't find its XML menu definitions (which 
would be fixable, probably).

I'd like to see if I can help diagnose this, but before I spend a lot of time trying to get it to compile 
etc, is there any smart advice to get going? What (not) to do?

Or is this perhaps one of those hard to debug GUI toolkit issues? I mean, I have other experience with Gnome 
apps being very slow in KDE. I'd rather not get into debugging X, GTK and Qt.