[fpc-pascal] Re: Performance problems with Image Conversions

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 24-2-2013 18:35, Andrew Brunner wrote:
> If not, does anyone have lightning fast scaling methods in C++ or Java
> that I can port/contribute?

You might want to look if e.g. ImageMagick is faster for your needs.

There's bindings for it in Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/PascalMagick

Apparently, exactimage was designed to be faster than imagemagick:
http://www.exactcode.de/site/open_source/exactimage/
It's apparently GPL. No idea about bindings for that.

Some more info about the built in FPC image support:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fcl-image#Known_Issues_and_limitations