Re: [help-GIFT] 'Re: Ups.

[David Squire]

Wolfgang Müller wrote:

> > i packaged it as a fork for a reason. i had to change generally EVERYTHING
> > about the coding style, to get gcc to auto-vectorize. there are (almost) no
> > global variables anymore, the gabor filters are in one array, not four.. it
> > is truely unholy what i've done to your poor program.
> > but, it works. ;)
> >     
>
> I would suggest that you and David fix a close deadline for David to look at 
> it more closely. He knows the code best. I have barely touched it since it 
> came out. David, if you do not feel you have the time to commit, please tell 
> us.
>
>   
I should be able to look at it some time in the next week. I have a more 
pressing deadline with coding I am doing for Damocles (which has "real 
users") that I need to focus on first. I'm afraid that I can't be more 
precise than that.

You know, I am amazed that that feature extraction code has survived as 
long as it has. It was only ever done really as a very quick and dirty 
proof of concept for the SCIA'99 paper :) I guess it was "good enough", 
so it lasted.

I agree that I would prefer to see ImageMagick retained, though perhaps 
by linking to their libraries rather than making system calls.

Cheers,

David

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