TIL Gimp has its own swap system. Neat.

Calling temporary files on a windows system running off a ntfs drive swap is a bit much i'd say.

@nitwhiz boy do I have news for you

>C:\swapfile.sys
>Used by Windows Apps (the Microsoft Store ones) for complete app hibernation
>If not present, Windows Apps may crash or refuse to run

That's horrible! Baking your own swap implementation as an application.. why? The system swap is there (and when it isn't, there's usually a good reason for it), applications should use it.

@Condor i guarantee you it was either inaccessible or completely shit at the time gimp was written.

@arcsector My guess is that Gimp was using the swap partition on *nix and this some kind of adapter that uses the NTFS and presents Gimp with a pseudo swap partition so they did not have to modify any of the working code to allow it to run on Windows where the swap partition does not exist and where the pagefile works in a completly different way than a swap partition.