Hello, I had now used shotwell 0.10.1 and imported about 130.000 picture files (jpeg, 720 x 576 pixel, about 10k per file).
I have not looked at the time in detail, but it needed "the whole day", roughly estimated about 12 hours or so. Thats much too slow. I will test how long the creation of the thumbnails with convert and shell will need. I would assume it's much faster. When scrolling in the overview of the files, here shotwell performs very good. Thats much better than I had in mind that f-spot behaves. But maybe thats because I compared f-spot when it has not already built the thumbnails. But somehow shotwell seems to be much faster in that point. (I could compare with f-spot maybe, when the thumbs are all created. But f-spot is on a different machine, so the comparison can only be roughly). When I click on one of the thumbnails, it needs long to open the picture (about 4 or 5 seconds). Here f-spot seems to be quicker. When I want to close that picture and go back to the overview with thumbnails it needs even longer: about 38 seconds. Nothing that really could be accepted. In f-spot I have about 30,000 pictures, in the shotwell test I used about 100,000. But I would assume f-spot will perform better at 100,000 pictures. Somehow it seems there must be done some work to optimize here. Either the OO-way is too much performance hungry, or the algorithms and/or datastructures in use could be optimized. Maybe the handling of the database. When I have opened one picture, then using the next/previous-arrows, this performs quite well. But switching between overview and single picture and back from single picture to overview is unacceptable slow. Maybe this can give the developers a hint on what might be necessary to look at. Some issues are quite fast and others are very slow. For a program with version number much below 1.0 this might be no surprise that not anything is perfect. But I hope these issues will be addressed. Ciao, Oliver _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
