scott wrote:
>> Sure, manipulating an 8 megapixel photo takes a lot of RAM. But what 
>> about while you're *not* manipulating an 8 megapixel photo? Why should 
>> it require any more RAM then? (Not to mention CPU time...)
> 
> Because it keeps 100 levels of undo data, has code for doing 400 
> different brush types and colour gradients, functions for adjusting 
> colour balance and histogram equalisation, red-eye removal, perspective 
> correction, much higher resolution and colour depth icons for all the 
> tool-bars, critical parts of the code have been optimised for speed (at 
> the expense of RAM usage) now that everyone has more RAM, it has loaded 
> lots of stuff to RAM that it thinks you *might* use so that it appears 
> to run quicker, etc.
> 
> Personally, I like having all that stuff at the expense of it using 1% 
> of my RAM instead of 0.1%.

Well, you must have some serious amounts of RAM to play with is all I 
can say... ;-)

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