Forrest Curo wrote: > So Scheme is one of the languages I've been considering, and in the > process I stumbled upon a list of programs it was used to write. One of > them: GIMP (Graphic Images Manipulation Program). Relevance?--Graphic > images of any detail are enormous chunks of data; doing even a simple > computation on one of these files has got to require a lot of > bit-crunching, which used to be pretty time-consuming even when I was > processing low-resolution grayscale photos for a monthly tabloid. I > haven't run a direct comparison with GIMP's commercial rivals, but it's > impressively fast by my standards...
If something seems too good to be true, it is. All the heavy lifting in GIMP is done by C code, with scheme available as a scripting language on top. /Gunnar _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
