http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/11/18/memory-usage-in-php-gd-image-functions/ Random thoughts about PHP, MySQL, and life in general Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/11/18/memory-usage-in-php-gd-image-functions/comment-page-1/#comment-1753 Felix Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:51 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=243#comment-1753 Very interesting. I didn't know that GD holds image resources as bitmaps in RAM. This also means that any operations you do on an image will not modify it's size in RAM and that even a blank image, created using imagecreate[truecolor]() will potentially use up a lot of memory. Very interesting. I didn’t know that GD holds image resources as bitmaps in RAM. This also means that any operations you do on an image will not modify it’s size in RAM and that even a blank image, created using imagecreate[truecolor]() will potentially use up a lot of memory.

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