Shish: I am pondering using it as the default thumbnailer; but it seems randomly glitchy, whereas PHP's built-in GD is broken in known and work-around-able ways..
animemahou: If using ImageMagick would give better performance would seem desirable in the long run. Even so would be nice to keep a more compatible method to fall back on for systems without it.
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Too bad ImageMagick can't be executed automatically
I suspect that IM can be made to work better, somewhere in its many thousands of options...