delay in show:

[fmw42]

I have been seeing a long delay (5 to 15 seconds) when using show: for it to return control to the terminal. (The image displays fast.) This has been happening on my Mac OSX Snow Leopard for a number of releases. It seems to have started around IM 6.9.4.0. That is it is very fast returning control at and before 6.9.3.9, but is slow for 6.9.4.1 and all subsequent releases. I have not tested 6.9.4.0.

My current version is:


Version: ImageMagick 6.9.5-3 Q16 x86_64 2016-07-23 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2016 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC Modules OpenMP
Delegates (built-in): bzlib cairo fftw fontconfig freetype gslib jbig jng jp2 jpeg lcms lqr ltdl lzma openexr png ps rsvg tiff webp x xml zlib

[magick]

Thanks for the problem report. We can reproduce it and will have a patch to fix it in GIT master branch @ https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick later today. The patch will be available in the beta releases of ImageMagick @ http://www.imagemagick.org/download/beta/ by sometime tomorrow.

[fmw42]

Thanks. Much faster now in 6.9.5-4