[Gimp-developer] Environment suggestion

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 18:01 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote:

> No, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that. At least with GEGL disabled,
> There's no performance difference I know of between 2.6 and 2.7.

Ok, thanks.

> In truth I haven't run 2.6 very much on my slow low-memory PIII laptop,
> and 2.7 not at all yet. 2.6 has mostly seemed comparable in speed to
> 2.4 -- both a bit slower, on that machine, than 2.2 was, a difference
> I don't notice on faster desktop machines.

That's not surprising. In particular the much higher quality of the
zoomed-out image display in GIMP 2.4, compared to 2.2, costs a few CPU
cycles.


Sven