Imagor 1.9.1 Benchmark Summary
15 hours ago
- #image processing
- #libvips
- #performance benchmark
- Imagor is one of the fastest image processing servers, leveraging libvips, Go binding vipsgen, and an optimized streamed processing path.
- Speed advantages include efficient streamed input preparation for libvips, blob reuse to reduce reader churn, fanout handling to minimize duplicated work, and a seekable source path for libvips.
- Benchmarks on AWS EC2 c7i.large show imagor outperforms thumbor overall and is competitive with imgproxy across formats like JPEG, PNG, WebP, and AVIF.
- Key performance factors include libvips optimization for resize/thumbnail workloads, and differences in request-path overhead and source handling between imagor and imgproxy.