On 4/24/09 11:05 AM, Michael Dale wrote: > Roan Kattouw wrote: >> The problem here seems to be that thumbnail generation times vary a >> lot, based on format and size of the original image. It could be 10 ms >> for one image and 10 s for another, who knows. >> >> > yea again if we only issue the big resize operation on initial upload > with a memory friendly in-place library like vips I think we will be > oky. Since the user just waited like 10-15 minutes to upload their huge > image waiting an additional 10-30s at that point for thumbnail and > "instant gratification" of seeing your image on the upload page ... is > not such a big deal.
Well, what about the 5 million other users browsing Special:Newimages? We don't want 50 simultaneous attempts to build that first über-thumbnail. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
