> Peter Berg wrote:
> > 
> > has someon the gimp working on his v1.3 system ? I'd like to know whether it
> > has a usable speed now on the new release or not.
> > I played around a little bit with it on a AMD/586 linux box and even there
> > some functions are not really fast.
> > Before I now investigate some time to make a riscbsd version from it, I'd like
> > to know whether our machine is fast enough at all for it.
> > 
> > PS: Better and even much cheaper then Photodesk ;))
> 
> We ran ti at Acorn World a couple of years back and it was pretty well
> unusable. Hopefully the speed increase from soft-float may have helped
> avoid this, as it was FP-related problems. Maybe I'll build it sometime.

Yep, I know. I had compiled it on the v1.2 system too (ARM710). Sadly it was 
not useable. Was your machine equipped with an SA-110 ?

The new softfloat lib 'only' brings the double speed in FP calculations. I 
guess this is still to slow

	ARM710 softfloat: float: 235, double: 93 
	AMD586 (linux):   float: 9967, double: 9967

(UNIX bench results)

Ciao, peter.


PS: I compiled it again (it took nearly 2 hours), but the result is the same
on v1.3: Unusable ! Because I really need the gimp, now I must buy a linux
box, presently only as application server, but ...