Please speed up Lightroom using OpenCL/GPU acceleration and/or AVX support!

Hello,
for those, who don't look at the feature request site:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/please_speed_up_lightroom_using_open cl_gup_acceleration_and_or_avx_support
Hello,
I enjoy using LR. But there is still one thing that lacks: Performance, especially in the Develop Module and Zooming...
So please speed up LR using:
- OpenCL/GPU acceleration. Capture One pro 6 is doing this. If they can do this, Adobe can also!
- AVX support: Nik Software is using this. Processes got 1,5 to 2,6 times faster than before. So again... if Nik Software is capable of implementing this, Adobe should be able as well!
So, I am no expert, but from what I have read I think it is possible for Adobe.
Would appreciate to hear from other people who have more inside knowledge if this is possible for LR!
Thanks, Adobe for hearing us.
Christoph

Hello Keith,
thanks for the info!
It well might be that OpenCL causes some problems. On the other side sometimes I don't know how good a forum is to measure the problems.
Remember when a new LR Release comes out and the forum is flooded mit posts about the problems? If you just read alle the posts in the LR forum you could come to the conclusion that the new LR is completely unuseable. But in reality I never had a problem upgrading to the new LR version...
I understand your point and it might really by to early to implement this technology in LR.
But I still hope for the other direction: AVX .
I just think that we have the hardware possibilities to improve speed and LR should take advantage of this.
Kind regards,
Christoph

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Painting with a brush and the mask showing makes the lag time visible.
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Lightroom version: CC 2015.0.1 [ 1018573 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Operating system: Windows 8.1 Business Edition
Version: 6.3 [9600]
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 3.3 GHz
Built-in memory: 16366.4 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 16366.4 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 3261.9 MB (19.9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 3324.1 MB
Memory cache size: 1469.4 MB
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 4
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX
System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 2560x1440, 2) 2560x1440
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: Yes, External touch: No, External pen: Yes, Keyboard: No
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Check OpenGL support: Passed
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 350.12
Renderer: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
LanguageVersion: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom
Library Path: D:\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat
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I know enough about GPU programming to be dangerous but I can't hope to "explain" how it all works. Consider that display driver releases easily exceed 100 megabytes in size (!!) to get a hint of how complex this realm is.
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And note that we're not even beginning to talk yet about multiple CPUs (multiple cores), or multiple GPUs.
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