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Instead of using this app you could just remove a memory stick or two from your computer. Free memory is the same as unused memory, and is not helping your computer perform better. It's wasted. Jesper

Because it separates the editing process from the final export of an image. There are non-dedicated formats? Only to those who do not read up on what XCF and PSD actually are. One is an open...

That Photoshop and Apertura are stagnated is not hypothetical. FOSS software will clean their clock if they don't get their act together soon. Query; what is the world's most installed OS across...

The only issue I know of is a bug in Flash where Flash could not open progressive files. Otherwise I know of no issues of this kind. And that issue is a bug, not a spec issue. This is also true of...

If you can write up a good case for why it should be the old way instead of the new way, go ahead and post that to the Gimp developer's mailing list. They're after the best possible product, and...

On the contrary, it has progressed very far and in many ways surpassed most competitors. Current beta Gimp has functionality Photoshop can't even begin to touch. That is because the tremendous...

Then we have have nothing to discuss. I am in the context of what the thread is about and have zero interest in hashing the current problems with raw files; they are well known. That is the...

Cache is free. The only time it is not is if the application holds on to it - which it can not do when it is no longer running. That memory is already available to the Lightroom memory needs of...

Right there. It's always been "a standard command easily used in the terminal". That has zero relevance to whether it should be used or not. At best all it does is hide the symptoms of whatever is...

When phrased like that I agree. Inactive memory can be reclaimed rapidly and is for all practical purposes free. Could be. But inactive ram should fill up if you start and stop a bunch of...

Quite so. But to from that leap ahead to that one can completely disregard inactive memory does not follow. Which is caching working as intended. So if you start and exit lots of applications...

Immaterial and unaffected by purge. Unlikely, since clearing the caches means he's clearing out any libraries which Lightroom uses as well. Cache is not limited to applications. Either way, the...

I don't think anyone has stated that? Inactive memory is cache, and as such is very valuable; there should be as much of it as possible. Very little free memory is the ideal situation. RAM should...

You will notice a speedup, especially from the caching. You'll find moving back and forward between photos a lot smoother, and editing will have fewer hickups. If you get 32GB RAM you will have...

Page outs occur when something which has higher priority asks for memory. At that point that which has lower priority gets discarded (if it is cache, called inactive in OSX) or paged out if...

The cache gets higher priority than inactive tasks; they get swapped out to improve performance of the tasks which are used. This is sensible behaviour for a desktop system. The cache is a FIFO...

It is. That's why older software can't open newer camera files. It's enough that the number of MP in a camera differs from what was available previously and the file format has to be reverse...

There is no difference in what compression algorithm or storage format is used. The same software can read it in the same way. JPG is very good this way, and that is one reason it is so...

What I can do in Windows 7 is work and support family and friends without the OS getting (all that much) in my way. This is impossible in Windows 8 without using third party utilities and/or...

"Touch" is a hardware characteristic. When you say "touch UI" I (and most likely everyone else) will read that as "the UI you use with your touch device". I have none, so I have no touch UI. If you...