With prompting from Chris, and a little further work in gd, I have updated this comparison further, adding a further gd/ctypes test, this time setting pixel values using the raw pixel data, as well as the start of a test for a numpy/PIL option. Unfortunately it doesn't fully work, at least with the version/s I have. However it does, based on what does work, seem to be relatively slow. The new indicative times look like this :
Method Time (s) Times slower than fastest +-----+ +-------+ +------------------------+ ctypes,c,GD raw 0.00082 1.0 ctypes,c,GD 0.00177 2.2 PIL - 'load' 0.03226 39.4 ctypes, GD 0.14428 176.4 PIL, numpy * 0.26271 321.2 PIL - 'point' 0.37180 454.5 Further details are here, including updated code : http://www.langarson.com.au/blog/?p=11 I also fixed a few bugs that affected the image created, but not the timing, and added code to save the files out where possible to further check they were actually doing what was intended. Cheers, JB. -- John Barratt - www.langarson.com.au Python, Zope, GIS, Weather _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig