[geeks] The Registry (?)

[Anthony Ortenzi]

Jon Gilbert said:
> On Aug 31, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
[...]
> > I had no trouble other than a bit of sluggishness with 12MP images
> > on my PC100 based P3, which had 384MB ram.  I would imagine the
> > speed would have gone up a lot if any of the software would have
> > bothered to use SSE or MMX.
> 
> 
> It's not just that it's 12MP images. It's that it transforms them from
> one ICC profile to another in a 16-bit (per pixel) color space. And,
> it does this for hundreds of images in a row, whilst still allowing
> the user to submit additional orders. On the current machines (which
> are already rather slow), it becomes nearly unusable during this time,
> and it takes far too long to get large orders ready. Plus, there are
> now 14, 15, even 24MP cameras in the consumer range... and it's not
> going to get any lower in the next five years. In my preliminary
> tests, the beefed up processor, faster mobo, and extra RAM makes a
> huge, immediately obvious improvement to the performance and user
> experience.

This strikes me as something that I wish would get rewritten to use CUDA.

-Anthony