[Digikam-users] Some other questions about RAW importing tool

[Tobias Schula]

Am Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009 10:41:15 schrieb Gilles Caulier:

> Raw import to divised to 2 part :
>
> 1/ demosaicing using libraw algorithms.
> 2/ post processing using digiKam core algorithms
>
> Both are 2/ do not depand of 1/ : you can adjust postprocessing
> without to run demosaicing. digiKam store demosaiced image in memory.
> Post processing is generally faster than demosicing. This is why it's
> can be computed in live (with a delay of 500ms).
>
> But of course if you change something in demosaicing settings all need
> to be done again: 1/ and 2/. As demosaicing is really slow, an
> "update" button is present in GUI.
>
> Note : to compute faster demosaicing, you need to install libgomp and
> recompile libkdcraw. demosaicied computation will be parallelized, but
> you need at least double core CPU (:=)))

So if it benefits from parallelization, why not using the GPU to accelerate 
the process? I assume it then would be a lot faster. Are there any plans to 
implement this in the medium term?