Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

["Michael Schumacher" <schumaml gmx de>]

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> Datum: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:06:07 +0200
> Von: Guiu Rocafort <neandertalspeople gmail com>
> An: Aaron Paden <aaronbpaden gmail com>
> CC: gimp-developer-list gnome org
> Betreff: Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

> Hello Gimp dev !
> 
> I also have noticed the low efficience and I think it's very necessary to
> improve that. With a quick google search I've found a code profiler called
> gprof. It seems easy to use, it would require to compile gimp with an
> extra
> "-pg" and disable any compiler optimization.
> 
> I'm actually very novice yet and my knowledge on GIMP internals is pretty
> limited. So, those more expert developers: What do you think ? Would it be
> difficult to compile GIMP with gprof ? Would it be really useful for
> improving GIMP performance ?
> 
> Greetings
> Guiu Rocafort
> 
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Aaron Paden <aaronbpaden gmail com>
> wrote:
> 
> > So I mostly use MyPaint, but I'd like to be able to do some things in
> > gimp, too. But gimp is way too slow on this computer. Especially trying
> to
> > open large images like MyPaint encourages, I'll have to run to another
> tty
> > to try and kill the process so I can continue to use my computer. I've
> got
> > an old Pentium 4 with only about half a gig of RAM. A bit behind the
> times,
> > but especially on Linux it's generally fast enough to get the job done.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to help improve performance? I don't have
> much
> > experience. I doubt I could write anything any faster. But maybe I can
> do
> > something to help identify bottlenecks? Anything I can do to help, I'm
> game.
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