The theme of Paint.NET v3.5 is … performance
February 5, 2009 – 1:01 amI sat down to write some notes before starting this blog entry, and I wound up with two full pages in OneNote on the 1920x1200 monitor it was sitting in. The more I’ve been working on it the more I’m excited about the Paint.NET v3.5 release. It isn’t one that introduces a lot of really cool or big-ticket features, but the list of small improvements is really adding up. I’ve been able to do a lot of research and prototyping in esoteric areas of multithreading and concurrency, and have gained both more mastery and more fear for these topics. Performance work in Paint.NET v3.5 has wound up focusing on 3 areas: Scaling up. As everyone’s been saying for years, the future is increasingly multithreaded. My newest CPU upgrade leaves me with 8 threads in Task Manager (Intel Core i7 overclocked to 3.8GHz). A lot of research and work has gone into making ...