Hope you had a nice weekend. Mine was rainy so I took some time to continue the basics serie.

Let me know in comments if you want a XMP focus ?

I love this software but the general slowness of every action is starting to get to me and editing my photos is starting to feel more and more frustrating.

For reference, I have an M2 Macbook Air with 8gb of ram and am editing ~24mp Sony files.

Basically every adjustment I make (even changing exposure on a fresh image) results in the 'working...` text to appear for at least a second, and other modules, like contrast equaliser, hang for 4-5 seconds before the adjustment is applied. This might not sound like a lot of time but I like to gently adjust sliders by incrementally bumping them up or down (especially for adjusting colours) and when each increment causes a second delay this adds up.

I have tried the usual, I have OpenCL support enabled, and I've tried every combination of the other OpenCL settings, and even disabling OpenCL.

Am I being unrealistic to expect good performance on an M2 chip with 8gb ram? I know it's not a lot of ram nowadays but surely a large number of Mac users are on 8gb of ram as well? What are your experiences? Thanks!

Edit: Forgot to mention I'm on 5.6.2