Are there potential performance issues with using imagecopy compared to creating a copy of the image in the filesystem?

Using imagecopy to create a copy of an image can potentially lead to performance issues because it requires more processing power and memory compared to simply creating a copy of the image in the filesystem. To solve this issue, it is recommended to save the image to the filesystem and then work with the copy rather than using imagecopy. 

// Save the image to the filesystem
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg('original.jpg');
imagejpeg($image, 'copy.jpg');

// Work with the copy of the image
$copy = imagecreatefromjpeg('copy.jpg');

// Perform operations on the copy of the image
// ...

// Remember to delete the copy file when done
unlink('copy.jpg');

Keywords

imagecopy filesystem performance PHP image manipulation

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