Photoshop CS4 is faster on Snow Leopard

Good news for Photoshop CS4 users: performance is improved on Snow Leopard. I’m seeing up to 6% faster with Snow Leopard booted into a 64-bit kernel (3% for a 32-bit kernel).

I’ll be testing Lightroom next. Watch this blog, my RSS feed or my Twitter tweets for more.

Click the graphs below for details. Fastest times are achieved when booting the 64-bit kernel.

Snow Leopard is faster, especially booted into 64-bit kernel

Snow Leopard is faster, especially booted into 64-bit kernel