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Re: [ApacheGallery] Patch to replace inline C code with native Perl
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:44:03AM -0800, Jon McClintock wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:24:26AM -0600, Thomas Eibner wrote:
> > > I'd also like to modify Apache::Gallery so that it blocks on resizing
> > > the individual images in a page, and not on the whole page itself.
> > > Blocking on sending the HTML for the page until all of the thumbnails
> > > have been generated causes problems with timeouts when you've got a
> > > large number of images in a directory. I think this can be solved by
> > > moving the image resizing code into portion of the handler that loads
> > > images from the cache. Are there any drawbacks to this approach that I'm
> > > not thinking about?
> >
> > Yes, the reason why we initially put it in the index page was that it
> > only has to be done once. What you really are requesting from the
> > page is the already scaled image and not something that gets scaled on
> > the fly. And because of the way we use templates it's not really
> > possible to spit out the HTML as soon as the image is generated.
>
> This doesn't make sense. The browser client makes seperate requests for
> the HTML and the images. You can generate the HTML without having
> generated all of the images. Why not save the image resize step until
> the client requests the image?
One reason could be that the script still would have to access all
images to get the height/width parameters into the html.
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Thomas Kjær