[Digikam-users] Can "Sharpen" be parallelized?

[Gilles Caulier]

2014-04-29 18:38 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 2014-04-29 17:56 GMT+02:00 Robert Zeller <robert.zeller at robert-zeller.org>:
>> Hi Gilles,
>>
>> sounds good; any progress here is highly appreciated; though a speedup
>> of a factor of 2 on an 8 core CPU calls for further improvement. BTW:
>> OpenMP is not 3rd party software;  libgomp1 (openMP runtime library) is
>> available across all Linux distributions.
>
> for digiKam OpemMP is a 3rd party dependency :
>
> - digiKam do not use OpenMP.
> - we don't want to extend dependencies to infinite.
> - digiKam already use Qt of course.
> - OpenMP syntax use pre-processor rules which is old style coding, not C++

==> Another one : OpenMP is not multi-platform as Qt : For ex, OSX do
not support it...

Gilles Caulier