On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Ewald R. de Wit wrote: > Anyway, today I went over the Gimp sources and noticed how complicated > the tile architecture makes things and I couldn't help wondering why > the heck it was put in. All it seems to do is to give you an order of > magnitude slower speed when dealing with large images. And large > images were supposed to be the very reason for a tiling architecture. > I'm afraid I have to agree with you on the performance WRT large images. I tried editing a couple of large images yesterday (10MB/600dpi) and it was painfully slow (Dual 300MHz PII, 128MB RAM). I've got a 20MB/1200dpi one I want to edit and I'm not looking forward to it! -Dave
