Re: Cheap Machine for Gimp? (Summary)

[Rui-Tao Dong]

> "Kelly" == Kelly Lynn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Kelly> On 27 Jan 2000 09:51:33 -0800, Rui-Tao Dong
 Kelly> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

 >> However, I am still uncertain where the bottleneck is.  X server,
 >> memory bandwidth?

 Kelly> Probably the code.  The tile cache is not very efficient.
 Kelly> Increasing the size of the tile cache will probably help.

I did increase the tile cache size to 100MB (on a 384MB machine) and
noticed some speed increase, but not significant.

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Re: Cheap Machine for Gimp? (Summary)

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On 27 Jan 2000 09:51:33 -0800, Rui-Tao Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>However, I am still uncertain where the bottleneck is.  X server,
>memory bandwidth?  

Probably the code.  The tile cache is not very efficient.  Increasing
the size of the tile cache will probably help.

Kelly