[Gimp-user] GIMP 2.10-RC1 Previews Loading Slowly

[jkhan <forums gimpusers com>]

> A perhaps more accurate description is that most operations are now
> performed
> on linear 32 bit floating point data, regardless of which precision
> pixels are stored with.
> Fast path conversions from storage formats of 8bpc and 32bit float
> have been around
> in babl for many years, but for most permutation of gray/rgb/alpha in
> 16bit precision,
> both float and integer no such short cuts existed and babl would
> roundtrip the data to
> 64bit floats. As of babl-0.1.46 released earlier this week most gaps
> for these pixel-formats
> have been filled with fast paths. There is still room for making the
> 16bit code paths faster with
> SIMD but GIMP-2.10rc2 should already be much better than 2.10rc1, for
> further details
> see also https://www.patreon.com/posts/babl-fast-path-18052156
>
> /pippin -

Interesting, I'm really trying to understand the differences, but are you
basically saying that my best bet is to wait for RC2?

Thanks for your time!

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jkhan (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)