Ho to trace Imagemagick

[manoweb]

Hello, I am seeing some unexpected performance issues when comparing two different "convert" command lines (as explained here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28482 ) so I was wondering if it's possible to "trace" the execution of a particular command line to see how exactly ImageMagick interprets it and what I can do to improve it. Is gdb and debug symbols my only option?

[fmw42]

I do not know if this will help, but see -debug at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#controls