Subject: Re: GIMP speed ?
To: Peter Berg <berg@mailserv.tu-freiberg.de>
From: Neil A. Carson <neil@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/10/1998 20:55:50
Peter Berg wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> 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.

	Neil

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