Re: [Jmagick-users] im4java vs Jmagick

[Bob F. <bfr...@si...>]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Whitney Sorenson wrote:

> The reason I asked the question, Bernhard, is for performance 
> reasons. Does your recommendation to "never change a running system" 
> apply if the system is running (too) slowly? In any case, if the 
> documentation on JMagick vs im4java were to be expanded to include 
> the information in this thread, it may also be helpful to know what 
> sort of performance gains can actually be expected.

>From my own extensive testing, I see that some versions of ImageMagick 
run much faster than others.  The im4java approach also allows running 
GraphicsMagick, which is usually faster than ImageMagick.  Some of the 
world's largest sites are using GraphicsMagick due to the performance 
and stability advantage.

Bob
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