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

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 16:07 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> The first part (DCT stuff) we already do in the jpeg loader (its the
> "jpeg loader trick" talked about above). The second we could easily do
> ourself in the jpeg loader for scaled image loads by scaling in
> YUV/GRAY8 space before converting.

Of course, most jpegs are in the RGB colorspace, so this is not perhaps
so important in practice.