[ From http://bugs.debian.org/441078 ] Evince 2.20.2 using Poppler 0.6.2 and Cairo 1.4.12 is very slow to render this PDF, Xpdf have no such problem. http://www.earlham.edu/admissions/documents/pdf/PlanningaVisit%2007.pdf
I can confirm splash backend is several times faster in this document than cairo backend.
Looks like a cairo issue that has been already fixed. It takes less than a second now (~0,7) to render with current cairo (git master).
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