> I *think* that thumbnail never loads the entire image into memory, 

Right.  It most likely subsamples each scanline and therefore substantially
reduces the memory requirement.  We could do the same in ImageMagick like we
already do for JPEG:

  convert -size 600x800 image.jpg -thumbnail 600x800 thumbnail.jpg

Its just something we have not implemented yet.
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