Fast thumbnail generation with ImageMagick instead of slow thumbnails in PHP
Obscure note: Dynamic PHP thumbnail generation takes forever. In one test on a fast, modern PC, it’s 6sec in PHP to convert a 2k by 3k, 3MP image to a 128×128 thumbnail. With the convert command in ImageMagick it takes almost as long…unless you use the magic *-size* argument.
See the Examples section of the convert manpage
With this it’s a small fraction of a second to do the same work!
Life is good…
