Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I doubt if ImageMagick developers can do much about this (unless IM is doing something weird). Redirecting stdout will always be slower than directly writing to a file. It's not with any other image format tho (same input file than in my first post): JPEG: $ convert.exe test.png test.jpg 0.00s user ...

Using TGA:- with convert is really slow compared to saving the output as a TGA file: $ time convert.exe test.png test.tga 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 2.708 total $ convert.exe test.png TGA:- > test.tga 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 49.859 total Both of these commands produces identical output ...