[magick-users] Re: [Magick-bugs] timing comparison

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Glenn Randers-Pehrson typed (on Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:56:22AM -0500):
| At 03:20 PM 1/18/2007 -0500, Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
| >I compiled today from current source and from an older tarball, and was
| >quite surprised to find an enormous difference in execution time.
| >
| >
| >$ time convert-6.3.1-7 B1.tif B1.ps
| >
| >real       19.74
| >user       19.29
| >sys         0.35
| >
| >
| >$ time convert-5.5.7-36 B1.tif B1.ps
| >
| >real        0.89
| >user        0.52
| >sys         0.27
| 
| Are you comparing 8-bit versus 16-bit builds?
| 
| Type "convert-6.3.1-7 | head -1" and "convert-5.5.7-36 | head -1"
| and look for Q8 or Q16

Both show Q16.

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JP
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