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  • How does GraphicsMagick differ from ImageMagick?
  • How does GraphicsMagick differ from ImageMagick?
  • originally based on (forked from) ImageMagick 5.5.2 in November 2002
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  • command-line syntax and programming APIs remain entirely upward compatible with ImageMagick 5.5.2
  • maintains a stable source repository with complete version history so that changes are controlled
  • maintains a detailed ChangeLog
  • maintains a stable release branch
  • ImageMagick does not offer any of these things
  • more time has been spent optimizing and debugging its code
  • dramatically fewer dependencies on external libraries
  • much smaller than ImageMagick
  • installation footprint is 3-5X smaller than ImageMagick
  • usually faster than ImageMagick
  • more efficient at dealing with large images
  • GraphicsMagick has been significantly updated to use multiple CPU cores to speed up the image processing
  • non-parallelizable code paths often dominating the time
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