Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp 2.8 blend time

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 00:16 -0300, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) wrote:
> El 11/05/12 20:21, Michael Natterer escribió:
> > Please file it in bugzilla, it's pointless to use threading if it 
> > makes things slower, and we have no code to determine the #cpus on the 
> > mac anyway, so we should default to one.
> 
> My 2.9 install on linux (Debian, 64 bit) also detected the number of 
> cpus incorrectly. I'm using a Quad Core and it defaulted to 8 threads 
> and it also made some things slower.
> 2.8 worked fine though, it's set to 4 threads and I can't notice any 
> slowness because of that.

Ignore any threading in 2.9, it's all going away and transparently
handled by GEGL/OpenCL.

--Mitch