[csw-maintainers] Anyone like to use graphics proggies? (gimp)

[Philip Brown]

if the problem is time for menus to appear, it is likely the
optimization levels of the gtk libraries, etc rather than Gimp itself.
but that's not definite.



On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Jeffery Small <jeff at cjsa.com> wrote:
> Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:
>
>>Hi folks,
>
>>Our current gimp was compiled by me. It was really mostly a quickie
>>"do our new gtk libs work" test. I'm not a regular user of the thing.
>>As such, is anyone willing to take it over and compile the latest?
>
>>We have an "upgrade" request, and I dont really have time to deal with
>>it properly at the moment.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have the time to take over this.  However, if anyone
> else does work on recompiling this, please take a look at any optimization
> that can be performed.  The current 2.6.8 version is quite a bit slower in
> many operations than the previous 2.4 version.  But the real killer is with
> the Color->Curves command.  It take around 20 seconds for the Adjust Color
> Curves menu to display the first time on my SPARC V250 and takes around
> 8-10 seconds to display after that.  After adjusting the curves, it again
> take 20+ seconds to apply the adjustment to a small photograph.  This is
> probably five times slower than the previous version of the program and
> this is really slowing down editing work dramatically.  There is something
> seriously wrong here that might be able to be isolated if monitored in a
> debugger.
>
> Long ago I posted info. regarding this on gimp forums/mailing lists asking
> for experience by others and tips for optimization, but received no useful
> replies.  It doesn't look like there are many Solaris users who are willing
> to share their experience.  I also tried to contact Ken Mays, the previous
> maintainer, but heard nothing back from him.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Jeff
>
> jeff at cjsa.com
>
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