Chiming in:
Multi-core requires love to work well.
ImageMagick, for example, has been known to run considerably faster on busy
systems with openMP disabled.
In GIMP 2.6, frequent marching ants were a CPU sink. (Bad observer
effect.)
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All you have to do is set marching ants speed to 10 and watch it ramp up
the CPU.
Perhaps setting marching ants speed to 0 should simply disable the updates
altogether? Generate the ants at one time, and don't bother updating them
again...
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Nicolas Robidoux
