On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 23:01 +0200, gfxuser wrote: > Hi, > > On 2012-05-11.12 Michael Natterer wrote: > > > I don't currently have 2.8 installed on this Mac, but it can hardly > > be slower, unless the threading got broken in GLib, try to set > > #processors to 1 in prefs and try again. > thanks Mitch, for your reply. > You're right, on the Mac it depends on the number of processors. Varying > this number in the preferences dialog between 1 and 16 showed > significant differences. The operation takes 1 second if #processors is > set to 1 and about 8 seconds if it's set to 16 processors. > BTW: my Mac has 1 processor with 2 cores. It's quite pointless to be > able to set #processors in prefs to 16. The upper bound for the input > value should be the actual number of processors or cores. Is this a > known issue or shall I file a new bug in Bugzilla? Please file it in bugzilla, it's pointless to use threading if it makes things slower, and we have no code to determine the #cpus on the mac anyway, so we should default to one. > > Also, what build are you using? Native or X11? > How can I find this out? I used the fresh 2.8 version from > gimp.lisanet.de. When running GIMP, the X window is open, too. So I'm > sure it's the X11 build. How could I otherwise find out whether the Mac > build is native? As Partha said :) Regards, --mitch _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
