# Making joint smoothing faster

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-joint-smoothing-faster/20053>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** segmentation\
**Created:** [October 7, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-joint-smoothing-faster/20053 "2021-10-07T13:45:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![apparrilla](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/apparrilla/32/9230_2.png) [@apparrilla](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/apparrilla)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-joint-smoothing-faster/20053/1 "2021-10-07T13:45:31Z")

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Hi everyone!  
Is there any way to improve joint smoothing ejecution times? It´s a very time consuming process but it´s the less destructive method for smoothing.  
Thanks in advance!!

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-joint-smoothing-faster/20053/2 "2021-10-07T13:48:41Z")

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Joint smoothing has been made much faster (magnitudes faster for certain use cases) in most recent Slicer Preview Releases, compared to the latest Slicer Stable (Slicer-4.11.20210226).