Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Jon Winters's letter: > > I'm forwarding this from gimp-user for anyone who is not on that list. > There was a question regarding performance and configuration but I can't > seem to get Gimp to outperform Photoshop. > > TIA for any configuration tweeks that may help me. (so far the only thing > i've done is adjust the tile cache) pretty strange. here a g3 notebook with gimp and tile cache set to 128Mb outperforms a g4 with potoshop! but we are using extremely *BIG* psd files (>200mb, 200 layers) and linux fs layer is much better than mac, right? ciao, federico -- Federico Di Gregorio MIXAD LIVE System Programmer fog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact fog@xxxxxxxxxx 99.99999999999999999999% still isn't 100% but sometimes suffice. -- Me