[KimDaBa] Multithreaded image loader?

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On Monday 10 January 2005 14:39, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
|    From: "Jesper K. Pedersen" <blackie at blackie.dk>
|    Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:30:05 +0100
|    Cc: Robert L Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu>
|
|    On Monday 10 January 2005 14:24, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
|    | I notice a comment in the image manager that the image loader can't be
|    | made multithreaded because the JPEG loader isn't MT-safe.  Is this an
|    | issue in the JPEG library or somewhere else?  Particularly (but not
|    | exclusively) on an SMP/CMP or HT system, multithreading the loader
|    | might offer a significant performance improvement.
|
|    Well. only if you have more than one cpu in your system, or?
|
| Not necessarily.  While that's becoming increasingly common
| (particularly in form of hyperthreading), the ability to overlap I/O
| with computation may offer benefits even on single CPU systems.  If
| the I/O system can reorder requests to improve latency (which is
| normally the issue when loading thumbnails), there may be considerable
| benefit, particularly on a fast CPU.
|
| This is the kind of thing where it's often hard to predict what's
| going to happen, and experimentation yields benefits.
OK.
My answer stay the same nevertheless - I've no clue whose fault it is
1) I remember trying to have multiple loaders in the very first days of 
KimDaBa, and remember seeing failiures - those might come from somewhere else 
though
I think it is the loadJPEG function which has some issues.

Maybe Marcus can shed some light on this, he added a mutex to loadJpeg a long 
time ago.

Cheers
Jesper.
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