Upcoming pica 2.0 changes about pica

[devongovett]

resizeBuffer is super useful in places where canvas is not available, such as web workers, and node. I use it in my resizer-stream module, which I use in web workers currently, but also works in node.

[puzrin]

@devongovett problem is in effective tiles generation. .putImageData() / .getImageData() are very ineffective and we should minimize their count. It's much faster to use canvas.drawImage() to build regions. Also, webgl requires canvas at input, and it's already supported in FF nightly webworkers.

RGBA buffer resize will be available, but as internal file. If you can't live without it, you will be able to use it as require(pica/lib/js/resize_array). But as i said, using is directly is not effective with some types of resize methods.

[puzrin]

@devongovett is it ok, if resizeBuffer() will support only "simple" mode, without webworkers / webgl and other adapters? I tend to leave it as legacy method.

PS. going to release soon. See dev branch changes.

[devongovett]

Sure. I can run it in a web worker myself.

[puzrin]

Closed - architecture questions resolved. The rest moved to #49

[puzrin]

Released 2.0. Enjoy!