[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6821: ImageMagick support

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#6821: ImageMagick support
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 Reporter:  matt            |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.5
Component:  Upload          |     Version:  2.5
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
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Comment (by dd32):

 > I can understand why using the extension would make sense but what if
 running the CLI is way faster?

 For a process which isn't run interactively/blocking a pageload, this is
 of little consequence, we can afford an extra second if that's what it
 takes. While we should attempt to use the least amount of processing time,
 some operations are limited by memory and processing power available..

 > Also I don't think overload a shared hosting is still the issue when
 running the extension.
 AFAIK, Correct, because it will be running within the PHP Process, it'll
 be limited to the resources allocated to PHP.

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 Upon looking into it further, i might be misunderstanding how the
 Imagemagick extension works - I was thinking it's responsible for the
 processing, however, it seems like it still requires a ImageMagick
 installation separately on the server which does the processing by
 executing `convert`, so it looks like my points might be moot if we want
 support for Imagemagick in core at all.

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