list of non-destructive or destructive GEGL filters

Software GIMP
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Hi,
Is there a list of non-destructive or destructive GEGL filters?
I couldn’t find any information about whether each filter is non-destructive or destructive in the following list.
https://gegl.org/operations/

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The destructiveness of a filter is really a Gimp matter. All the filters were destructive in Gimp v2, many no longer are in v3, while the Gegl version didn’t change much (Gegl 0.4.46 in Gimp 2.10.36, 0.4.59 in 3.0.3).

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Thank you!

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Wait technically even the filters that are destructive in GIMP like gegl:oilify and gegl:lens-blur are non-destructive in GEGL graph and I have ways of using them non-destructively if I want. For example a few plugins of mine call gegl:oilify as part of a much larger graph

The way GEGL works is through a non-linear graph of nodes and every filter in GIMP is basically an individual graph. GIMP is not using the full node system of GEGL and likely never will.

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