Re: Speeding up thumbnail generation (like multi threaded). Thoughts please.

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

On 09/30/2009 09:27 AM, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> You want to override GdkPixbuf's support for Jpeg and thumbnail all JPEG
> images using EPeg. It'll beat GdkPixbuf by 5 times or something.
>
> That's because afaik does EPeg use libjpeg in a way that it skips rows
> and columns, and that way performs better on both I/O (having to read
> less of the original), memory (same reason) and CPU (having to
> decompress less, having to scale less or nothing).

Is there any reason not to use epeg in the gdk-pixbuf jpeg loader itself?

- Mike