Erlend Davidson wrote: >> Nautilus thumbnailing appears to be quite slow, compared to >> thumbnailing of pictures in windows. >> >> Wouldn't it peform better if thumbnailing didn't require to launch a >> program for each single image (using something similar to what fcgi >> does for web pages or something ?) > 2.4GHz P4... 7 seconds in Thunar to thumbnail 42 jpgs. Total filesize > around 40MB. > > Can someone do a similar test on Windows?
Windows Explorer was noticeably faster than Thunar and Nautilus. I've tested that some time ago with a large image folder (don't remember the numbers). But this is definitely not a problem with launching a separate application, since both Thunar and Nautilus handle JPEG thumbnailing internally. Maybe it's libjpeg being slower than the Windows equivalent. Maybe the I/O throughput on Windows is better. Maybe the FAT subsystem on Windows is generally faster than on FreeBSD/Linux. Dunno. Benedikt _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg