Re: GSD should not housekeep the thumbnails

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 22:41 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 2008/9/22 Ted Gould <ted gould cx>:
> > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 18:19 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> >> JPEG loading with libjpeg is currently really slow (the benchmark being
> >> Photoshop, which is really goddamn fast for JPEGs).
> >>
> >> We could totally use some liboil/profiling ninjas to work on libjpeg to
> >> make it faster.  Then, maybe thumbnailing on-the-fly wouldn't be
> >> painful.
> >
> > That sounds like a GREAT SoC/Senior Project/etc. assignment.
> > Verifiable, measurable, contained and useful!
> 
> IIRC, David Schleef has some fast jpeg decoding routines lying around
> somewhere...

There is also epeg, from Enlightenment, and I quote them, an "IMMENSELY
FAST JPEG thumbnailer library API."

Docs:
http://docs.enlightenment.org/api/epeg/

Example:
http://systhread.net/texts/200507epeg1.php

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