Re: Thumbnailing speed

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:43 -0600, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
<snip>
> The problem with leaving it up to thumbnailers/metadata extractors
> themselves, is that:
> 
> - You have a lot more potential points of failure.

But for the end-user/developer, either it works, or it doesn't.

> - You'll run code that's not part of the GNOME platform.

Yes, and?

> - It's hard to do QA because there are so many possible inputs.

True, but not applicable.

> - When it breaks, users will file bugs against Nautilus/Beagle/etc, not
>   against the metadata extractor, and bug reports are often useless even
>   if you know which component is failing.

They won't, see below.

> This has bitten Beagle's metadata extraction a *lot* - and it's not just
> 100% CPU bugs, it's also bugs that'll eat up all your memory, for
> instance.

Beagle's metadata extraction is in-process, the thumbnailers are
out-of-process.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>