Open as Layer / speed of copy-paste

[Cyrille Berger]

> On a slightly related note --- I'm getting my first dual core cpu on
> Monday  (a macbook pro) - is Krita threaded in any way - will it take
> advantage of both cores?
yes and no. Krita is not yet threaded in itself (it has allready improved in 
the developement version). But with a X11 server, while most of the 
processing is done in Krita's thread, some part of the GUI and drawing is 
handled by the X11 server and process. But that's a small gain.

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Cyrille Berger