Re: GSD should not housekeep the thumbnails

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

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...