I have spent a few days with Ryan's 64bit build of hugin, and I think
"wow!" is the best way to summarize the experience so far.  Here are a
few observations:

I set the memory usage for enfuse and enblend to 7GB.  Both went upto
the limit while stitching a large project with no issues.  I also
noticed nona got upto about 5GB and hugin itself got to 3GB, even
though I had the image cache set to 500MB.

A 17k wide 360x180 blended/enfused equirectangular projection from
125, 70MB, 16bit TIFF files stitched in 72min!  Previous projects took
about 5hrs.

I tried one autopano-sift-c test case  for 15 images with --maxdim
4000 set and it found over 3000 control points.  Typically, I have
found the previous versions have issues adding control points when --
maxdim is set to > ~1200. I also tried adding a Nadir with these
settings, and ~10 control points were found for all adjacent images,
which never happened in previous runs.

The optimizer really didn't seem much faster.  Still only used about
12% of cpu resources.

Overall hugin interface was a bit perkier, especially when dealing
with control point editing and cropping.

Both preview windows were more responsive.  I had issues with every
previous build where I would get a boost thread resource error about 1
in 5 times when adjusting the projection in the regular preview
screen.  For this build, I could not make it crash!

Not a single crash since I started testing on large projects!  At
times, I have had a project active over days, without closing or re-
starting.

Definitely a much improved user experience for large projects.  It
looks like from the discussion threads that not many people in the
user community are dealing with such large projects, but that is all I
work with.  This build certainly makes that work more pleasant!  I
understand that it should not be critical path for 0.8.0, but it would
be a great enhancement for the next release.

Regards,
Rick

On Jul 8, 5:17 am, Bruno Postle <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue 07-Jul-2009 at 14:38 -0400, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
>
>
>
> >Well, it's only supported if those two patch sets get merged upstream prior
> >to 0.8 (your prior e-mail asking for thoughts). My belief is they should be
> >very minor (the patches to Hugin itself, really Vigra, were straight from
> >upstream just backported).
>
> Sorry these didn't get applied, I'm trying not to break anything
> that is currently already working and 64bit Windows is a new feature
> rather than a bugfix (this shouldn't stop anyone creating a 0.8.0
> 64bit binary installer, they will just have to patch first).
>
> --
> Bruno
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