On 4 March 2013 15:24, Joao S. O. Bueno <gwidion@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all -- > > While GIMP 2.9 is thriving with lots of possibilities, one thing remain as fact: > it is dead slow. > > I most likely missed some of the efforts being done to try to > compensate for that - > like avoiding unnecessary pixel format conversions in some operations - and > the possibility of having GEGL to run with open-CL acceleration. > > I think it is not an exaggeration to add that even with this, the > current rendering model > is dead slow. > > To the point of being unfeasible to work on a 1024x768 image in modern > hardware - > one simply can't paint. Other raster application, including GIMP 2.8, are doing OK performance wise with a rendering mode that is very similar to GIMP uses now, so I don´t we necessarily need to do drastic changes there in order to fix the performance. I think a useful GSoC project would be to define and implement some meaningful benchmarks for GIMP. If successful, that would give insights into what the causes of the current performance problems are. I believe that is needed for coming up with a good solution for current, and future performance issues. -- Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
