On Jan 24, 10:46 pm, "Prateek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I'm creating a web-application using CherryPy 2.2.1. My application > needs to process images (JPG/PNG files) to > > 1) create thumbnails (resize them) > 2) overlay them on a custom background (a simple frame) > 3) Overlay 'badges' (small 16x16 images) on top of the final thumbnail > > I am using PIL 1.1.5 which I have custom compiled on my development > machine (MacBook Pro 2.33Ghz Core Duo).. > I am using im.thumbnail for step 1 and im.paste for steps 2 and 3. > > The problem is that this thing is just way too slow. > For ab -n 1000 -C > session_id=2f55ae2dfefa896f67a80f73045aadfa4b4269f1http://localhost:8080/imaging/icon/def/128/255(where > def is the name > of the image - default in this case - 128 is the size in pixels and 255 > is the background color), I am getting: > > Document Path: /imaging/icon/def/128/255 > Document Length: 14417 bytes > > Concurrency Level: 1 > Time taken for tests: 18.664 seconds > Complete requests: 1000 > Failed requests: 0 > Broken pipe errors: 0 > Total transferred: 14680000 bytes > HTML transferred: 14417000 bytes > Requests per second: 53.58 [#/sec] (mean) > Time per request: 18.66 [ms] (mean) > Time per request: 18.66 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent > requests) > Transfer rate: 786.54 [Kbytes/sec] received > > FYI: This request returns a PNG image (image/png) and not html > > My understanding is that the problem is either with the CherryPy setup > (which is likely because even in other cases, i don't get much more > than 65 requests per second) or PIL itself (even though I'm caching the > background images and source images) > > Does anyone have a better solution? Is there a faster replacement for > PIL? > > Thanks in advance. > Prateek
Check out the mac CoreGraphics bindings. Not sure if it will be any faster, but it can do what you want. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/19/core_graphics.html ~Sean DiZazzo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
