How does libgd stack up against the competition?
I am curious what kind of experience people had with libgd. I'm looking for an alternative to GDI + (something faster). I've tried ImageMagick but can't get performance out of it. I need.
I have heard that ligd is fast but less feature rich and that ImageMagick is slow but has more features.
I only need very simple image processing routines (scale, crop) in a limited number of formats, mostly jpg. However, I need very good quality interpolation and it should be fast (faster than GDI +).
I am considering trying libgd, does this seem like a good fit given my requirements?
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My own experiences with libgd are very good.
I've used it on a website where I grab jpeg images from disk, add a text title to them and discard it back, and it feels about as fast as if the file was served straight from disk.
Considering that every time it decodes a jpeg, changing it and then re-encoding it, that's pretty good!
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