From: Dimitri Aivaliotis <aglarond@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T18:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: RMagick Help

For what it's worth:

If you don't mind recompiling ImageMagick, you can set the option
--with-quantum-depth=8.  It's recommended to just use the 8 bit
processing if you're not doing work that needs the extra depth.  It 
has the added benefit of making your processing faster.

- Dimitri