I imagine load time hasn't improved so much because that's not really what they are optimising for.
You could of course still run an old version of Photoshop on a modern PC if startup time is really that important to you.
I think it would be interesting to compare performance of Photoshop CS5 with Photoshop 6 (the first version I used) on a modern PC.
I would expect of course that PS6 would start up almost instantly whereas CS5 would take a few seconds.
However it would be interesting to also take a relatively large image file of the sort of size that a graphics designer might actually work with (let's say 500MB or so) and apply a bunch of the same filters across the whole image (in such a way as to produce an identical result) on the same computer and time them both.
My guess would be that CS5 would be significantly faster which may be partly due to optimisations made at load time. Not sure if anybody has actually measured something like this though?
You could of course still run an old version of Photoshop on a modern PC if startup time is really that important to you.
I think it would be interesting to compare performance of Photoshop CS5 with Photoshop 6 (the first version I used) on a modern PC.
I would expect of course that PS6 would start up almost instantly whereas CS5 would take a few seconds. However it would be interesting to also take a relatively large image file of the sort of size that a graphics designer might actually work with (let's say 500MB or so) and apply a bunch of the same filters across the whole image (in such a way as to produce an identical result) on the same computer and time them both.
My guess would be that CS5 would be significantly faster which may be partly due to optimisations made at load time. Not sure if anybody has actually measured something like this though?