Re: Using the ImageMagick backend seems to leak memory

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

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.