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by bmwiedemann
2012-08-08T07:00:37-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT = 0 doesn't disable OpenMP
Replies: 22
Views: 88234

Re: MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT = 0 doesn't disable OpenMP

The solution is included in my text that you quoted. I exported the environment var
MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT=1
to avoid the huge overhead of parallelization
by bmwiedemann
2011-08-29T05:33:18-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT = 0 doesn't disable OpenMP
Replies: 22
Views: 88234

Re: MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT = 0 doesn't disable OpenMP

OpenMP is enabled at the scanline level. Each algorithm is divided into scanline chunks that are passed to however many processors are available on your system. It can speed up algorithms significantly for dual and quad core processor technology. One of our systems has 20 processors and ImageMagick...