[KimDaBa] Reducing memory consumption

[Eivind]

On Saturday 15 January 2005 06:36, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> MB -> 170 MB).  However, it still seems like 80 MB is a bit high for
> the image in question, which is somewhere in the range of 5500x3500
> pixels (18 million pixels).  Perhaps there's some way of reducing it
> some?

It ain't nessecarily that high. I'm am not quite sure what the current 
KDE-libraries do, but atleast more and more image-handling libraries 
internally use 4-byte pro pixel in order to store not only RGB info, but 
also an alpha-channel. Doing so is required for example to handle 
png-images properly.

4*18 million is 72 million, it's atleast in the same ballpark as the 
memory-consumption you are seeing.


Sincerely,
		Eivind Kjørstad