I'm not sure if this has been addressed elsewhere, but I'm curious: With the talk of GIMP becoming GEGL-based in future iterations, would that speed up operations (such as running a gaussian blur on a large image or rescaling multiple layers at once)? Or are those kinds of things just inherently time-consuming?

Mo Memory, Mo Memory, Mo Memory....if that doesn't work, buy some more memory.

LOL I'm already rocking 16GB RAM with 10GB going to GIMP's tile cache alone Maybe I'm just being picky.

Jesus man, why even ask that question than! Yours set for a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time!

...and your Gimp is too slow?!!

Up to now it's been looking like GEGL would slow processing down, but to judge from this post of Partha's there may be some improvements possible: http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp-us ... ssage66197

Yes, something like a Gaussian blur is very compute-intensive. Even computing the result of two overlapping layers with partial transparency is rather CPU intensive (one multiplication/pixel/color channel). And try to use the perspective tool with preview on a 12Mpx photograph...

One point in favor of GEGL is that it makes it a lot easier to offload compute-intensive tasks from the main processor (CPU) to the graphics card (GPU). The latter is mostly a large set (fom 64 to over 2000 in current high end cards) of simple arithmetic processors that can work in parallel.

That is precisely what I was wondering about, if using the GPU to perform operations like that within GIMP will be even faster than it is currently.

OK. Now I'm really jealous! I'm running XP with a lousy 3GB of ram which, I'm told, is all that XP can drive. I need a new puter......

Definitely. The hitch is that accessing the GPU is done through system interfaces that aren't the same in Linux/OSX/Windows so the ports are going to be more difficult.