Re: image-size

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> > If it's not transferred via X, why is it slow when running Emacs over
>> > ssh, but not locally?
>> 
>> I don't know.
>
> Actually, I have a guess: the time it takes is needed to decompress
> the JPEG data.  On my machine, even with local files of 3MB size it
> takes about a second.

address@hidden /tmp]$ time djpeg /tmp/0.jpg > /dev/null

real    0m0.028s
user    0m0.025s
sys     0m0.003s

> If I use other types of images, like PNG, it is much faster, and with
> XPM it is instantaneous.

And, like I said, if X is local, it's virtually instantaneous.  It's
network traffic related.

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