On 23 Apr 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > David Neary <dneary@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known > > > fact and it's not trivial to improve. > > > > How, exactly? > > AFAIK they don't load the full image into memory. If you open a large > image, only the preview is loaded and if you zoom in, then only the > necessary parts are pulled into memory. Of course this doesn't work > with all file formats. There are already bugzilla entries about this -- most prominantly #107246. I have a feeling to do this right it would have to be a fairly sophisticated GEGL node. Why aren't I on gegl-developer again? :) Rockwalrus
