Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-07 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
>I was used to adjusting photoshop to prevent it swapping, and tried to do >that with GIMP, the above figures were based on my idea that X wanted 30 >megs and gimp seemed to want about 10 or so, leaving about 20 left for the >image. All wrong, terribly wrong. I set the cache to 30 megs last nigh

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-07 Thread egger
On 7 Jun, Sven Neumann wrote: > As profiling the Gimp shows, there's the need and room for > optimization. Marc and Daniel did work on this last weekend > and hopefully we will soon see those changes in CVS. I'd be very glad I you could apply this patches I'll send them to you soon -

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-07 Thread gimp
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, pixel fairy wrote: >> It was set to 8, or 10, or 15, I've tried them all, >> 8 seemed to be faster >> as that stopped Gimp having to swap to VM or push >> other apps out to disc. > > 8,10,15? where do you get these numbers? your tile > cache should be alot more than that. I

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > at 4k x 3k for most things you do see the line comming > down. its slow for hue/sat/lightness adjustments, and > fastest for curves. i may try this on windows, but i > think some of the others on this list have already > beaten that horse enough. Someone already mentioned it, but I want to

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-07 Thread pixel fairy
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, pixel fairy wrote: > > Hmm, you can adjust contrast, colour curves and > levels in more or less > realtime? Can you tell me what hardware you have? celeron with ati rage fury (32MB), only for its support of hardware gamma. my ancient PCI mell

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread Jon Winters
Hyperborean wrote: > > Could it be that Photoshop does the previews only on the > visible pixels? I'm with George on this one! Pre-vue mode should be visible pixels only. -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/jon/ "Everybody Loves The GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread Jon Winters
Andy Thomas wrote: > What version of gimp are you using? The recent CVS versions had a real > bug in the updating of previews when using the levels/curves stuff. On the advice of Andy and others I disabled the layer pre-vue images and things speeded up quite a bit. (they also mentioned this is

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Jon Winters's letter: > > I'm forwarding this from gimp-user for anyone who is not on that list. > There was a question regarding performance and configuration but I can't > seem to get Gimp to outperform Photoshop. > > TIA for any configuration tweeks that m

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread Jon Winters
IL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images Hello all, Yesturday I requested that our friend send me a copy of his image so that I could try the test on my computer at work. (PIII 400 128MB, Matrox G400, WinNT) I chose to test with levels because I ad