I'm back on what, for the moment, is my main photo machine (x86_64 linux, 4 cores) where I'm running 2.9.4. Now that I've scripted that part of my process which uses 3 exposures, and got it working in 2.8.20 on a lesser machines, I'm adjusting it so that it also works on 2.9.4.

When I was doing each step by hand, the fact that it ran slowly was not a very big deal. But now I'm adding forced errors to stop it after each logical step (it *appeared* to run after I changed the layer mode names to digits for -hopefully- backward compatability), but to do nothing other than produce warnings that one function was now deprecated) so that I can view the layers and if necessary correct fubars (only a misname so far), the long runtime is starting to annoy me.

Is suspect this is just something I'll have to get used to (hopefully a new machine will turn up this year, perhaps with an NVM drive devoted to /home :) but I thought I'd ask. In 2.8.20 it appeared to use all the cores - I know the 2.9 xcf files will be bigger, but is there anything I can do to speed it up ?

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