Krita 4.0 Working On Performance Improvements, Benchmark & New Filters

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Krita 4.0 Working On Performance Improvements, Benchmark & New Filters

Krita 4.0 remains under development as the next big feature update for this Qt-powered digital painting program and it's brewing a lot of new functionality...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Krita-4.0-More-Features

[rsthomas]

the multi-threading for the pixel brush engine has basically removed any brush lag i was experiencing for brushes under 400 pixels.
even brushes as large as 1000 pixels are somewhat usable now without having to use instant preview mode.

[caligula]

the multi-threading for the pixel brush engine has basically removed any brush lag i was experiencing for brushes under 400 pixels.
even brushes as large as 1000 pixels are somewhat usable now without having to use instant preview mode.

How efficient is your machine? 8 cores or more?

[rsthomas]

How efficient is your machine? 8 cores or more?

I have a stock clocked ryzen 1700 so 8 cores 16 threads at around 3.2GHz.

[miabrahams]

I've been keeping an eye on the Krita repository and there are some seriously major changes. A lot of new contributors bringing stuff to the table for this release.

[Apopas]

Krita is enormous!