[Paint.NET very slow in opening 23MB JPEG file]

Arrrrgh! I forgot the compression methodology of JPEG files completely!

Thank you guys, and sorry about that!

Rami Radi

[Paint.NET very slow in opening 23MB JPEG file]

Hi Rick,

Thank you for the explanation, but doesn't what you say imply that Paint.NET should take say a maximum of 50-60MBs of memory to open the 23MB file?

Instead, it takes 3GBs! This is what i am worried about. Do you think there might be some kind of memory leak?

Thanks,

Rami

[Paint.NET very slow in opening 23MB JPEG file]

Hi Rick,

I attempted to see how Paint.NET will behave when i opening images larger than 2-3MBs on a Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5150 based platform and saw some interesting things.

The images I used can be downloaded from the following link:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/01/image/a+warn

I know that Paint.NET is not prepared yet to be able to open massive images such as the 385MB TIFF file in this link (which caused Paint.NET to crash btw), but when trying to open the 23MB JPEG file on that site, Paint.NET consumed 3GB of RAM!!, causing Windows to complain that its Virtual memory was too low, and took maybe 4 minutes to load the file.

I tried to see how Photoshop 7 would react to such files, and found that the 23MB JPEG opened in approximately 10 seconds and the 385MB TIFF opened in approximately 45 seconds.

So my question is: Are even 23MBs that big for Paint.NET at the moment? Are there any future plans to fix or enhance this?

Thanks,

Rami Radi