I managed to fix my problem, it seems that it was taking so long
because of the consturction of a for loop of mine. I was calling the
ImagePNG function too early, menaing it seemed to take forever to execute.
it's now running at a fraction of it's original time.
Conor
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 06:30:35PM +0000, Conor McTernan wrote:
>
>
> hmm, sounds like a good idea, i'll give it a try.
>
> it seems too, that if i dont break up my text, i.e. print all of it in one
> long line, it runs a lot faster
>
> i'm running this under Win2k, i got a PIII i dunno how many mhz(it's a
> college PC, and everything is locked down on me) but i'd guess at 800mhz
> or something like that. i think i'm also running about 256mb or ram.
>
> so my specs are pretty good, i would imagine.
>
> i'll look into the multiple images soloution.
>
> cheers
>
> i'll get back to y'all with my results.
>
> Conor
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:21:42PM -0500, Michael Kimsal wrote:
> > Holy cow that's a big graphic.
> >
> > 20 seconds does sound a tad long, but might not be depending on the
> > server and memory - what are the specs?
> >
> > What might possibly speed it up a bit is to create multiple small
> > versions first (20 one line graphics, for example) and build them all
> > together at the end by loading and copying into the final large area -
> > this MIGHT cut down time a bit, because all the drawing operations would
> > take place against a smaller memory area. Just a hunch though.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Conor McTernan wrote:
> > >I'm currently using the GD extension to generate dynamic PNG's containing
> > >text, that should eventually be coming from a database.
> > >
> > >the deal is, it seems to take a long time, which is probably my own fault,
> > >seeing that I'm generating so much text. I am generating an image
> > >containing approx 160 lines of text, and it takes about 20seconds to
> > >create, this unfortunatley is too long for me.
> > >
> > >I was wondering if this is a common time with GD or if I am doing
> > >something wrong.
> > >
> > >Coding wise, I currently read the text in from a file, then put the text
> > >into an array, each line being a seperate entry in the array. I then
> > >create a PNG image approx 490*1848(i change the image size depending on
> > >the amount of text). I dont do anything really strange in my image
> > >function, apart from performing a wordwrap on the text before i start
> > >displaying it, just to make the image readable.
> > >
> > >ideally I would like this to come in considerably quicker. that said, if
> > >this is going to be used, it will probably done as a cron job, so if need
> > >be I will have toaccept it being super slow.
> > >
> > >any help is appreciated bros
> > >
> > >Conor
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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