On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 06:59:57PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Porting GTK2 to Quartz could bring some improvements but it isn't a > prerequisite for a good user experience of The GIMP on Mac OS X. The > one thing that is a lot more important at the moment is to fix bug > #102058: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102058 > > The fact that our shared memory implementation doesn't work on Mac OS > X makes our plug-ins run unreasonably slow. This will hurt the user > experience a lot more than widgets being drawn by an X11 server which > is available, working, supported and fast. So if you think about > helping to push GIMP-1.3/2.0 on Mac OS X, you should consider to help > us to implement shared memory using mmap or using POSIX shm. I just checked in an POSIX shm tile transport implementation. I'd like someone on OS X to test it, since I'm not 100% sure how POSIX compliant OS X is, but I'm reasonably sure it works. It was rather trivial to do, I'm surprised no OS X user took the initiative to fix this long ago. -Yosh
