Major Canvas Performance Improvements
By Steven Van ·
Pencil speeds up canvas redraws by 3.6x and cuts memory use 33% on large, image-heavy projects.
Pencil's canvas now handles large projects without slowing down, including documents with 10,000+ photos and 10GB of content, according to a post on X.
- Opening files is 2.7× faster
- Canvas redraws are 3.6× faster
- Editing is 3.5× faster
- Complex files are 6.8× faster
- Memory use is down 33%
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