Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] ImageMagick vs. GraphicsMagick

[Tony Theodore]

On 12 December 2010 09:29, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear mingw-cross-env team,
>
> I just added support for the GraphicsMagick library:
>
>    http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
>
> This library is a great alternative to ImageMagick that
> doesn't get the attention it deserves. Although ImageMagick
> seems to be more popular, I strongly suggest to think about
> switching your projects to GraphicsMagick.
>
> From the website:
>
> "GraphicsMagick is originally derived from ImageMagick 5.5.2
>  but has been completely independent of the ImageMagick project
>  since then. Since the fork from ImageMagick in 2002, many
>  improvements have been made [...] using an open development
>  model but without breaking the API or utilities operation."
>
> The website also lists "some reasons to prefer GraphicsMagick
> over ImageMagick".
>
> I'm using GraphicsMagick for private stuff as well as in
> production code without any problems.

Looks interesting, have you played with the OpenMP enabled versions?
The benchmarks seem impressive. Maybe time to revisit our gcc build as
we'll have something known-to-work to test with.

Cheers,

Tony