Follow-up Comment #3, patch #9955 (project pspp):
[comment #1 comment #1:]
> You are right that gimp is magnetudes slower than other tools, and in many
respects is an overkill for this job.
>
> However, this was a deliberate decision since gimp (like pspp) is a GNU
project and the policy is to use other GNU tools where feasible.
I think it would be reasonable to support more than one tool here.
Also, my guess is that most of the slowness of GIMP is a startup cost. Maybe
there is a way to convert more than one image in a single run, speeding things
up significantly.
Finally, running "make -f Smake -j$(nproc)" also speeds things up.
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