Digital BW, The Print

> It wouldn't take any longer to calculate a 16 bit histogram. To calculate
> the distribution of pixels values in an image you have to count
> every pixel.
> The number of pixels to count is the same whether you're dividing the
> distribution into 256 buckets or 64K.

I would agree, especially if you just index your counter off the
value...then all you are taking up is more memory, but no more processing.
The counters would basically have to be the same size anyway, since the
number of pixels determines the counter size requirement, not the bit depth.