Why Pentium 502
Most likely system difference, I only have a 2.2Ghz A64 compared to your 3Ghz and these things are quite likely sheer clockspeed dependent. What are your timings for a radial blur, spin, best quality? Is yours a HT chip?
You should also try seeing what happens when previewing artistic filters like plastic wrap. It takes about 15~16 seconds just to generate the preview for me.
Personally I've avoided taking on projects dealing with bigger sizes simply because after one experience (saved file was some 200MB IIRC), I decided I don't want to have to wait half an hour to apply a filter.
It makes quite a bit of difference for straight forward operations like applying a filter. The P4 is very good for this kind of operations because Netburst's kind of like a DSP...
I have to disagree with your buttumption I'm hitting the disk. PS is only using 196MB because I used a single layer for this test so memory is not a concern, the raw image size is only about 50MB. I still have 1GB of physical memory left. More importantly, I monitored the disk activity on PS using taskinfo and it did not do any significant I-O operations during the time the filters are applied or previewed.
Windows is reporting that because PS is using as much processing power as it can and not responding to external inputs during that time. It has nothing to do with memory in this case. Purely CPU bound.
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