Image: possible new high-performance backend?

[jcupitt]

Hi, I've made a PHP binding for libvips. It's quite a bit faster than imagick or gd and generally needs much less memory. Would there be any interest in experimenting with a vips backend for Intervention\Image? I'd be happy to help, if I can.

The module is here:

https://github.com/jcupitt/php-vips

I made a tiny thing to benchmark it against imagick and gd:

https://github.com/jcupitt/php-vips-bench

On that test anyway it's at least 4x faster and needs at least 4x less memory. There are more benchmarks here:

https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/wiki/Speed-and-memory-use

It's the library behind sharp, the popular high-performance image resize package for node.js:

http://sharp.dimens.io/en/stable/performance/

Of course, please close this issue if it's inappropriate.

[jcupitt]

I remembered another relevant benchmark. Carrierwave is one of the leading image uploading modules for Rails, and there is a vips backend. This repo benchmarks against rmagick and mini_magick:

https://github.com/stanislaw/carrierwave-vips-benchmarks

Those results are a bit old now, but on that typical uploader workload, vips is about 3x faster for jpg, 8x faster for png, and needs 4x less memory.

[jcupitt]

Last post on this, but php-vips is now at 1.0. The ext part is in pecl:

https://pecl.php.net/package/vips

so it's easier to install, the PHP layer is fully documented:

https://jcupitt.github.io/php-vips/docs/classes/Jcupitt.Vips.Image.html

and it's in production use on at least a couple of sites. libvips itself (the underlying image processing library) is used by wikipedia, tumblr, booking.com, etc. etc.

[kleisauke]

I'm interested to experiment with a vips backend for Intervention Image. If I got some spare time, I could try to implement a driver for vips into Intervention Image.

Self-disclosure:
We have used the Intervention Image library in the past for our image cache and resize proxy website but for peformance reasons we decided to switch to php-vips. Source code of our proxy can be found here.

[jarodium]

+1

[dzanfardino]

+1

[mindplay-dk]

Anyone started on this? :-)

[jcupitt]

There's a libvips imagine backend here:

https://github.com/rokka-io/imagine-vips

Might be relevant.

[andrefelipe]

Found one intervention driver here https://github.com/osiemsiedem/intervention-image-vips-driver

Not sure how to use it yet, it's undocumented, but still, it's a start

[Lustmored]

Hi,

I have taken this under my radar and spent some time to implement missing commands. You can see the result in my fork:

https://github.com/Lustmored/intervention-image-vips-driver

I hope to get it merged into main package and then pursue upstreaming into intervention if there will be interest for that.

Any feedback would be very welcome :)