On 11/22/2008 04:30 PM, Jujitsu Lizard wrote: > Summary: (a) Both approaches are quite good, and (b) the CPU efficiency > argument for stuffing prepared images into a table or similar may be weak. > > The Lizard > > By using pre-drawn images and HTML img tag calls you distribute the processing to the client side, by doing this is certainly reduces overhead because you're sending text thereby eliminating ANY overhead at all. I think this almost by definition would suggest a significantly lower overhead.
Granted in a one shot call, the difference will be minuscule, in a production web server environment with many client calls, you want to distribute this as much as possible to reduce server overhead and I think anyone here that has done GD processing in a production environment will tell you, using it isn't free by any stretch of the imagination. -Micah -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
