On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, I am a bit scared tho, after reading this from the README:
> > 
> > MEMORY REQUIREMENTS
> > 
> >   You should allocate sufficient swap space on your system before
> >   running ImageMagick; otherwise, you may experience random server or
> >   application crashes. Anything less than 80 megabytes of swap space is
> >   likely to cause random crashes.
> > 
> >   On many systems, you will find that 80 megabytes is insufficient and
> >   you will have to allocate more swap space.  You should also have at
> >   least 32 megabytes of real memory although 64 megabytes or more is
> >   recommended.
> > 
> > - alex
> 
> Face it. If you want to do REAL image manipulation, you need REAL memory.
> I'm not saying that you should waste it, but some things just depend
> heavily on memory. Image processing is one of them.

Yes, but it should still be possible to work with, say, a 1000x1000 window
showing a small part of a 10000x10000 pixel image. I think PhotoShop*
allocates memory in tiles for large images. Is this possible with
ImageMagick?

*) Usually known as PotatoShop, PornoShop or PhotoStop :-)

greetings,
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