PhotoFlare AppImage is very slow

[dmpop (Dmitri Popov)]

So I took the AppImage version of PhotoFlare for a spin, and I noticed that it’s slow to the point of being barely usable. When I press any of the buttons in the toolbar (Contrast, Saturation, etc.), it takes somewhere between 5-1o seconds for the action to complete. I have a pretty decent machine with loads of RAM and a handful of cores running openSUSE. Am I doing something wrong?

Best,
Dmitri

[DylanC (Dylan)]

Hi Dmitri,

This is due to the filters currently being single threaded. I have some changes in place to use all the threads for most filters. On my own machine this resulted in a 800% performance increase.

OpenMP for graphicsmagick filters

@CarVac - I have this merged now. Some filters work in OpenMP and some don’t. So its a hybrid of single thread and multi threaded performance for now. (which is still vastly better than before) Hopefully I can figure out why some filters produce strange artifacts with OpenMP. I do know some do not work properly because they expect the whole image passed in rather than a segment of it.

Will be released as part of the next version. (v1.6.0)

[dmpop (Dmitri Popov)]

Hi Dylan,

Thank you for your reply. When do you expect to release the new version?

Best,
Dmitri

[DylanC (Dylan)]

Hi Dmitri,

Its hard to say right now but I’m thinking the end of September currently.