F-Spot takes a long time to load large JPEGs

[Jonathan Avraham]

Binary package hint: f-spot

F-Spot takes between 5 and 9 seconds to display a 8 mega-pixel (3MB) JPEG in Edit Image mode. It first displays a blurred version almost instantaneously, and then takes the rest of the time to put the sharp version over it.
Gwenview, for example, takes less than half the time.
Admittedly I am using old hardware (see below) but I believe it can be much faster - and Gwenview proves it.
The long loading time makes slideshows impossible when the CPU is under moderate load - F-Spot starts skipping images (Should I open a separate bug for image skipping?).

My computer's specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2600
ATI Radeon 9600 with latest proprietary drivers (8.9)
1GB RAM
Ubuntu 8.04, fully patched
f-spot version: 0.4.3.1-0ubuntu1

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, I've tested that with a 6MB photo i have and it takes around 2 seconds with f-spot 0.5 from Intrepid, eog takes almost the same time to load it, could you test with intrepid and report back? Or submit the jpeg to the report so we can test with it? does it takes the same quantity of time if you load the file with: f-spot --view file.jpg ? thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.