This might be getting a little on the OT side but how much memory is used up at a time in this situation? Does the memory clear after each image? Does it pile itself up?

I'm not so much into the technical side of things, but I'd have to think that storing an image locally might take a little longer but it would clear up a lot of unecessary memory and it'd be faster to process the image sizes if they were locally stored. So when it comes to the memory usage, if storing the files, wouldn't it only be a problem for a short while instead of the duration of the entire loop above?

I could be speaking nonsense as I have no real clue how this stuff really works.

In reply to Re^4: endless loop problems by coldfingertips
in thread endless loop problems by Anonymous Monk

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