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1. lopken+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-08-31 13:25:07
Like many other commenters, I found this article surprising. Figma is anything but fast for me. Do you performance-test your software on any Linux distributions?

Figjam on Firefox on Ubuntu is painfully slow and laggy. On a 32-core Ryzen machine, drawing lines on an empty file visibly lags. Doing the same thing in Excalidraw, on the other hand, is extremely responsive.

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2. et-al+rB[view] [source] 2023-08-31 15:50:29
>>lopken+(OP)
To be fair, Excalidraw and Figma are vasty different in terms of scope.

Is your GPU doing any work? What are the results from here? https://pmndrs.github.io/detect-gpu/

3. imslav+z71[view] [source] 2023-08-31 17:51:50
>>lopken+(OP)
Hey there

we test on macs, windows and linux laptops, it is very surprising that drawing 1 rectangle is painfully slow.

Sometimes it happens when your browser does not enable hardware acceleration or when your Linux distro does not know how to switch to the discrete GPU.

We won't be able to tell without getting more of your hw specs and debug information, feel free to reach out to the Figma support or email me at skim@figma.com - this is exactly the type of issues that elud us when looking at prod metrics in aggregation.

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