Re: Lightening up GraphicsMagick

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Bob Friesenhahn
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Since I am the one doing the work, I have reviewed the situation with
> GraphicsMagick distribution files and have decided that it is time for
> them to go on a diet for GM 1.3.  I will be eliminating the .zip and
> .tar.bz2 files.  The .zip files are absolutely huge and wasteful.
> The .tar.bz2 file is hardly smaller than the .tar.gz file.  I think
> that Windows users can easily download 7-Zip in order to deal with the
> very compact .7z format and avoid a 25MB download.
>
> I also plan to eliminate the static builds for Windows.  It is likely
> that they are popular but they lack features of the DLL builds, take
> lots of time for me to build, verify, and upload (at least an hour
> each), and waste resources.  It will of course continue to be possible
> for people to create their own static builds.

Hi Bob,

Just take a look at the ChangeLog and I notice that the openmp
support in GM 1.3
is a hightlight.

I have a Pentium 4 3.GHz single CPU and a HP xw6200 xeon 3.8GHz dual CPU.
I am a openMP novice  but if I know how to test openmp feature of GM
1.3, I will do.


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