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Re: Partsref Update
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:56:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> The funny thing is, it's taking longer to convert from BMP24 to GIF than it
> did to render the images in the first place...
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> ImageMagick gives better compression than Paint Shop Pro (not sure why that
> is...), but IM seems to be an order of magnitude slower.
I wonder if it has something to do with the image sizes being so small -- that
the overhead of firing up IM for each image is the bottleneck. Under FreeBSD
the executable I got when I compiled IM was 2.5MB(!) and I seem to remember it
also uses quite a bit of core while running. But that's probably because it's
a Swiss Army Knife of a tool.
Anyway, wow, I certainly appreciate your computer's time -- and yours!
--Todd
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| (...) Heh. Maybe. It might also have to do with me trying to run it in the background on a Win98 machine. I moved it over to an old P166 with NT4, and it's going much faster. Unfortunately, the P166 doesn't have enough disk space for all the BMP (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Partsref Update
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| (...) The funny thing is, it's taking longer to convert from BMP24 to GIF than it did to render the images in the first place... ImageMagick gives better compression than Paint Shop Pro (not sure why that is...), but IM seems to be an order of (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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