Performance

[Martin Weber]

Here some performance tests on an Intel Celeron 333 with 128 MB:
BMP file, grayscale (8-bit), 10000x7500

loading with ImageMagick 5.1.1: 20 min
loading with GIMP 1.1.15: 10 min
loading with Photopaint 8: 1 min 39 sec
loading with Photoshop 5: 14 sec

saveing with GIMP 1.1.15: 2 min 25 sec
saveing with Photopaint 8: 23 sec
saveing with Photoshop 5: 11 sec