RMagick exporting pixels as string

[Ilmari Heikkinen]

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[Ilmari Heikkinen]

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[Detlef Reichl]

Am Samstag, den 07.01.2006, 19:29 +0900 schrieb Ilmari Heikkinen:

Did some more timing and pinpointed the problem:
export-bgra: 0.557612
pack: 4.761164

export_pixels isn't quite the speed demon, but pack's
the real problem.

Hi,

try image.to_blob, that will return the image data as a string.

Cheer
detlef