QML text rendering performance unacceptably slow

[SQEW]

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[Jens]

Have you tried Qt 5.1 yet? There are a lot of functionality for desktop applications with Qt Quick. In addition we have significantly optimised text rendering of large blocks of text.
You could also experiment with changing the renderType property to Text.NativeRendering to see if it has an impact on performance

[SQEW]

Hi,

Thanks, setting the rendertype to native fixed the problem!
I'm not keen on trying to install a separate Qt from the one that comes from the Ubuntu repository, which lags a bit behind. Nice to know there's some performance gains still to come.

Regards