Need a good GD optimization

[majik-sheff]

I'm working on a script right now that used GD heavily, specifically the imagesetpixel() function.

The script is taking a stream of raw pixel color data and converting it to a PNG/JPG file to display in a browser.

This script routinely handles images larger than 1000 pixels on a side and when every pixel is being set it can take the script up to 20 seconds to process a single image.

I need a faster way of getting raw pixel data into GD that doesn't involve an external program.

I've exhausted everything I can think of, does anyone have suggestions?

[Anon]

Is it a solid color?

[majik-sheff]

Not hardly, it's a stream of pixel data that could represent any possible image.

[Anon]

Yeah GD isn't that speedy is it?

I guess it's designed more for plotting geometric shapes rather than pixel-by-pixel processing of large images. Maybe there is a faster system than GD you could use.

Nojer2