@darix Yes, I agree. But the initial reason I started this thread is that previously, export times were reasonable on exactly the same hardware. What I didn’t realize was the quite severe computational requirements of some of the tools that I have recently added to my processing pipeline due to the very excellent results I’ve seen them capable of (like in the thread linked by @martin.scharnke above). I do imagine, being in the FOSS world as we are, that there are probably a lot of people out there across the world on older hardware who would like to use a tool like darktable because of, among other things, their financial situation. While I am in the position to be able to upgrade (and indeed I likely will soon), many folks are not. So, it’s really good to know how to use darktable efficiently on underpowered hardware, and also good to know which tools one should avoid in those situations. This thread has been very informative for me in this regard.
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