[Image-SIG] Comparison of PIL and GD speed for setting pixels through python

[Christopher Barker]

John Barratt wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I've had a need to do some optimisation of some low level pixel setting 
> code, and have as such done some tests of different ways of doing this 
> using PIL and alternatively with gd via ctypes.

Have you tried using PIL + numpy -- you can convert a PIL image (some 
eof them, anyway) to a numpy array, and manipulate it there. Numpy 
provides a number if efficient ways to do such manipulations.

In the most recent PIL, you should be able to convert to/from PIL/numpy 
without any copying of the data, though I don't think it's been heavily 
tested.

-Chris



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