If this is true and PHP extensions run shell commands in the background, why not just use shell_exec instead? Would there be any difference? I'm under the impression that PHP extension are usually written by newbs because they are full of bugs. For example the imagick extension :/ So why not communicate with the library directly?
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No, absolutely not. Most PHP extensions interface directly with a C library, and imagick is no exception.
The shoddiness of the imagick extension is entirely the fault of the ImageMagick library itself.