30 Oct
2007
30 Oct
'07
1:30 a.m.
On 10/29/07, Stefan O'Rear
The OP specified that the images are around 5M in size, and need to be rescaled, so we're talking about quite a bit of computation per shellout (tens to hundreds of megacycles). Are context switches that slow?
I don't know. I'd have to do the experiment before I could give an answer to that. But yeah, if I were the OP, I would probably start by trying to write a shell script (or a simple Haskell program with calls to "system") to do what I wanted, and see if that was adequate. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * catamorphism.org * Often in error, never in doubt "Work a little bit harder on improving your low self-esteem, you stupid freak" -- "Weird Al" Yankovic