Questions and postings pertaining to the usage of ImageMagick regardless of the interface. This includes the command-line utilities, as well as the C and C++ APIs. Usage questions are like "How do I use ImageMagick to create drop shadows?".
ImageMagick can be less memory intensive. ImageMagick permits you to set resource limits. If you set the memory and map resource limits to say 8MB, any image that is larger than that is cached to disk. Its slower but it does limit your memory usage.