Completely understand. Of course, the fun part IS the development! :) Perhaps I should defer to the list or anyone else that wants to chime in?
I suspect most users of any such module would prefer to put a cache in front of it....this just makes the most sense to me. Anyone else care to input? On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Cliff Woolley wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Michael Montero wrote: > > > My main concern would be with how expensive ImageMagick calls can be and > > the need to call both mogrify and convert (in my experience) to get a > > single thing done to an image. I would much rather read an image into > > memory and then perform a host of functions to it rather then read, write, > > read, write, etc. > > Fair enough, though... > > > Of course, this is all less interesting if there is a proxy caching the > > images. In which case, the performance hit is to generate the initial > > image only. > > This was the point I was trying to make, yes. No matter which path you > chose, you're likely to want mod_cache anyway if there's any amount of > redundancy in the images you're computing (which, for the kind of site you > described, I can only imagine that there WOULD be)... and if you're using > mod_cache, then you might be able to justify that extra bit of initial > overhead more easily. > > It's definitely the case that a native module will perform better, and > should be the preferred option if it will have to run frequently (eg, if > the parameters passed change frequently enough that mod_cache would be > ineffective). Although I'd still be interested to consider the mod_perl > module option that was just mentioned in that case. > > I'm just trying to save you a little development time. :) > > --Cliff > > -- Michael C. Montero Chief Technology Officer Community Connect Inc. Co-founder [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-= Community Connect Inc. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Premier Source of Interactive Online Communities 149 Fifth Avenue http://www.CommunityConnectInc.com/ New York, NY 10010 http://www.AsianAvenue.com/ http://www.BlackPlanet.com/ Click into Asian America The World Is Yours http://www.MiGente.com/ http://www.DiversityJobMarket.com/ The Power of Latinos In partnership with The New York Times ----- Your Message May Appear Below This Line
