On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 08:13:56AM -0800, Martin Weber wrote: > Here some performance tests on an Intel Celeron 333 with 128 MB: > BMP file, grayscale (8-bit), 10000x7500 > > loading with ImageMagick 5.1.1: 20 min > loading with GIMP 1.1.15: 10 min > loading with Photopaint 8: 1 min 39 sec > loading with Photoshop 5: 14 sec > > saveing with GIMP 1.1.15: 2 min 25 sec > saveing with Photopaint 8: 23 sec > saveing with Photoshop 5: 11 sec What do you have your tile cache set to? How much RAM is actually available to the GIMP? ... more details would probably help. My Dual PII/500 with 256MB of RAM and a 7200RPM IDE drive and 128MB tile cache loads big TIFFs in seconds. Tom -- -- Tom Rathborne tomr@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.aceldama.com/~tomr/ -- "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style."
