Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

32-bit Q8 would most likely be faster simply because there is a smaller memory requirement. However, we have not formally benchmarked recently to confirm our conjecture. Ok, I'm using this for rather low quality images, so I suppose then I'm better off with the 32-bit Q8 version even in a 64 bit ...

Thanks for answering. What about the other question? ("from the available options, which would be faster? 32-bit Q8 or 64-bit Q16?")
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Sorry to bring up an old post (came from a Google search) but, why aren't you offering a x64 version of the Q8 version for Windows? Q8 is faster and suitable for most general uses. Why no 64 bit version? I suppose the 64 bit version has better performance in a 64 bit OS, doesn't it? BTW, from the ...