I want to start evaluating the state of rust and its image processing libraries. I do not expect many libraries to be very feature rich but can presume that they should be able to resize a image quickly with a variety of sampling algorithms.

Purpose
Goal is to see if migrating our image resizing app using sharp image library. Sharp can perform the same conversion of a 2000x2000 to an 150x150 image size in 0.101s. If we can beat this metric we have a purpose to investigate migrating further.

Test must be built as a release for speed optimizations.

cargo build --release
cargo install

cd test
./benchmark-72ppi.

Test performed with :

  MacBookPro11,5
  Processor Name:	Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:	2.8 GHz
  Number of Processors:	1
  Total Number of Cores:	4
  L2 Cache (per Core):	256 KB
  L3 Cache:	6 MB
  Memory:	16 GB

We have beaten sharp!!!

Need to check/verify quality output of images.