Re: How Fast Is GD/PHP?

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, DELAP, SCOTT F (SBCSI) wrote: > Does anyone have experience using the GD image functions to resize a lot of > pictures at once for a page. I'm looking into using it for a site I'm going > to build. A page will have maybe 50 entries pulled out of a database at > time each with a image associated that is probably a 150K Gif on average. > I'm wanting to use PHP to dynamically make thumbnails for each images and > send them to the browser on this page. The problem is right now I just > don't know what kind of load that will put on the server and how fast it > will be. Well, resizing will take a bit, GD isn't terribly fast. But if at all possible, you may want to consider making them jpeg's before scaling them. The gif format is very bad at scaling down to a thumbnail size. So it may be worth testing how a gif scales, and comparing it to how that same file as a jpeg scales. For what it's worth, it's a fairly simple proces that shouldn't incur too much of a load. It may take a couple minutes, depending on your platform. Matt