On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:55:51PM +0000, Erlend Davidson wrote: > > > Mike Massonnet wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:02:28PM +0000, Erlend Davidson wrote: > > > >> There is a postscript thumnailer in there too now. This is a tad slow > >> (worst is 3 seconds per file), and I don't see that being a fixable > >> problem - it's just the way postscript is stored. I was thinking about a > >> couple of things in relation to this. It might be an idea to give > >> thumbnailers a priority in the .desktop files - keep the slowest ones > >> until last, and to give a way out if there is ever a conflict between > >> two thumbnailers wanting to do the same mimetype (i.e. choose the > >> fastest one which has all of TryExec satisfied)? > >> > > > > What about using the directory /dev/shm (if it exists) to do the > > compilation? For the record, it is a filesystem in RAM which is > > noticeably faster than hard-disk access. > Making a thumbnail for postscript is very easy, I just call > ImageMagick's convert program - there is no middle stage that I could > place on /dev/shm, if that's what you meant? If anybody knows of a > faster means of generating a thumbnail of postscript please say.
You can use a tmpfs to generate tex thumbnails for instance :) Mike -- http://massonnet.org/ Mike (m8t) Massonnet __oo GnuPG 0--" 0xF8C80F97 ---(_)_"> C4DA 431D 52F9 F930 3E5B 3E3D 546C 89D9 F8C8 0F97
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