New build - slow gif

quetzlzacatenangoimagemagick.org wrote:

>>The new version runs time
/home/a26811/im/bin/convert nat1844.png nat1844.gif
>>
>>real    0m1.71s
>>user    0m0.85s
>>sys     0m0.23s
>>    
>>
>
>With ImageMagick 6.3.0-2 we get
>
>  sh-3.1$ time convert nat1844.png nat1844.gif
>
>  real    0m0.093s
>  user    0m0.040s
>  sys     0m0.052s
>
>On a 2.8GHZ Xeon.  We'll take a look at speeding up the
color reduction
>algorithm when time permits.
>
>  
>

Do you think its possible this is responsible for a > 3x
increase?
Obviously your cpu is faster, ours is running on an older
enterprise 
NClass HP server.
The production server is a couple times faster than
development, but even
still it looks bad to be using that much cpu on a large
server like that.
Where it really shows up is 2 ways,
first converting my RGB's into gifs inside my Wand program. 
I need to 
convert about
20-40 per minute, using 2 cpu threaded program it can't keep
up (older 
dev server)
Secondly, we have another process that takes these gifs and
animates 
them into
a 10 image loop and that takes several times longer as well.

I'd stay with tbe older build, but the Wand api seems quite
different and
the online documentation only talks about the new version. 
Even the include
files are different, and for a newbie I'd like to stay where
the 
documentation exists...

Thanks for any help.
Brian

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