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We've installed PECL on the server and enabled imagemagick processing, and I've created an addon that helps support using animated gifs as avatars. Of course, we're running into the simple problem that it takes a huge amount of server resources to resize a gif (100% of one CPU for one image). Not just when they're uploaded as avatars but when they're attached in forums or resources or anywhere else.

So, maybe this is a stupid question and shows my lack of expertise in image processing...

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