Public bug reported: Binary package hint: findimagedupes
An excellent feature for findimagedupes would be hashing/analyzing multiple images at once, in parallel. Each image can be analyzed independently, and the file IO makes up a minuscule amount of the runtime - the problem is embarrassingly parallel. Practically linear speedups should be perfectly possible. And the benefits are real: on large collections, the runtime can be many minutes or hours. I have 4 cores which are generally not doing much; why can't they all be used to cut the runtime by half or more? I looked into running 4 findimagedupes concurrently and then using --merge to bring together their results, but this is deeply hacky and I worry about race-conditions and data consistency in the ultimate fingerprint database; parallelism is something the application should be handling internally. ** Affects: findimagedupes (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- findimagedupes should be parallelizable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs