Peter.Berg@ww.tu-freiberg.de wrote:
> 
> > 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 ?

> 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 ...

I'm sorry to hear that, but as the nature of the problem is FP related
there's absolutely nothing we can do about it :-( Are you using
StrongARM? This may help... Can you put a binary or tar.gz arhive up
somewhere so I can pull it, test it, and work out what it's doing?

	Neil