multithreading

[Andrew Edmund Antunes Jones]

Inkscape was really struggling however only one of my four cores was active (at 100%) on it. Could adding support for multithreading be possible.

Inkscape version 0.91

PC specs:
msi Z77A-G43 motherboard
Intel® Core™ i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 4
GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
7.8 GiB DDR3 RAM
Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit

[Brynn (brynn4inks-deactivatedaccount)]

Inkscape does have multi-threading. See Inkscape Preferences > Rendering > Number of Threads

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Thank you for taking the time to file this feature request. As Brynn already hinted at, Inkscape already has multithreading support - it is limited to the rendering of filter effects though.

See also:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91#Rendering_and_performance

The request to improve performance with multithreading has been filed several times before, and is currently tracked in
* Bug #200415 “ARCHITECTURE: Inkscape performance unaffected by multi-core / CPU setups”
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/200415

Proposing to link as duplicate to bug #200415.

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

Agree, closing as duplicate of bug #200415.