Adobe and Microsoft achieved a 20% increase in Photoshop performance

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Adobe and Microsoft improved Photoshop performance by 20% through optimization work on Microsoft’s Visual C++ compiler toolchain. The change centers on sample profile-guided optimization, or SPGO, which helped Adobe speed up Photoshop on both x64 and Arm Windows systems. Microsoft says the optimization produced a 20% gain on x64 and a 13% gain on Arm, with Adobe also seeing additional improvements in some workloads. This is a technical software update focused on developer tooling and application performance rather than a commercial product announcement.

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