Alright people, time to seize the opportunity in #GNOMEPapers to fix one of my long-time performance annoyances with Evince: a potential 2x speedup by… avoiding rendering everything twice (due to the sidebar's thumbnails).

Barring #Poppler backend renderer performance issues, this should help #GNOME have a noticeably faster and power-efficient #PDF reader app 🤞 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/119

Miniature thumbnails in the sidebar render before the page contents canvas, and do not reuse the page's render, doubling render times (#119) · Issues · GNOME / Incubator / Papers · GitLab

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