Adobe Photoshop CS5 speed issues and my “snake oil” javascript solution
Several months ago, I documented a Photoshop CS5 performance bug that I termed “warmup memory allocation hit”. Subsequently, I researched a way to bypass this problem, and wrote some javascripts to do so, available here as part of diglloydTools.
Today a curious discussion thread appeared at Adobe, where an Adobe employee called my solution “snake oil”. I don’t know how long my post will last before being deleted (maybe it won’t be), but you can see it in its entirety in this screen shot.
Since my “snake oil” solution achieves what Adobe’s engineering team apparently cannot yet achieve (make CS5 run at full speed), perhaps Adobe could focus on fixing the issue so that I can retire my stupid scripts.
CS5 first run is horribly slow
