PanoTools NG:
Re: Re: Processor Speedtest
Pat Swovelin 2007-Aug-04 00:14:34
On 8/3/2007 2:15 PM, Jim Watters rambled on about ...:
> Pat Swovelin wrote:
>> On 8/3/2007 9:11 AM, Hans Nyberg rambled on about ...:
>>
>>> are you sure about the last numbers using fast transform.
>>> It does not make sense that your is 1 min faster only in that
>>> option while the 2 others are the same.
>>> I updated my pano12.dll to the faster version but that does
>>> not make any differense at all.
>>>
>> Then what's the supposed advantage of the faster version (vs. the stable
>> one)?
>>
> The stable version is compiled with MinGW
> The faster version is compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio.
> The version in the MSI is the MinGW version.
> The problem is really with the older tools (PTStitcher and PTOptimizer)
> because they free memory that was allocated by the dll instead of
> telling the dll to free it.
>
> The MSVS compiled version uses a different pair of memory functions to
> allocate and free that are not compatible with the ones used by the
> older tools. This problem happens when one of the older tools are used
> with the MSVS version of the dll. memory is allocated in the dll and
> then freed in tool.
>
> If matching pair of operations are not used then it *may* cause a
> crash. On my older PC it never happened. On my newer PC, one is five
> times it will crash. (Which is why the MSI includes the MinGW version)
>
> The speed increase will only be in the warping of the image.
Thanks for the clarification.
Pat Swovelin
Cool Guy @ Large
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