From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the ImageMagick backend seems to leak memory Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:27:50 +0900 Message-ID: <87pqs99qjd.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87sjx6zczl.fsf@member.fsf.org> <30611405.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294382113 12093 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2011 06:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:35:13 +0000 (UTC) To: Jashy , Emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 07 07:35:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pb5un-0001zj-6s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:35:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pb5um-0004hX-O1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:35:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34432 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pb5sx-00041S-Hb for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:33:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pb5sw-00071t-Kq for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:33:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:40076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pb5sw-0006yR-AY for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:33:14 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263C23FA0580; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:33:03 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CC2601A28E0; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:27:50 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134345 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > My impression is that in general, ImageMagick does not aim at memory > efficiency (that's why I don't want to use its libraries for my own > image I/O needs, event though doing so would be pretty convenient). > I would have though it's OK for small/medium images though. I believe disagreement on this point was a (minor) reason why the GraphicsMagick project forked off. Anyway, GraphicsMagick *does* aim at efficiency, both in time and space. For that reason it's been my primary target in speculation about adding such support to XEmacs.