[EN] darktable 3.0 to 3.8: optimisation of software performance

Let's see how to tune memory settings to speed-up CPU and GPU computations, and setup darktable on Nvidia Optimus laptops to use both GPUs (discrete and integrated).

Video edited by ‪@audio2u‬, thanks to him.

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