Using Enlightenment 17's Epeg API (Part Deux)
jjrff writes "The Enlightenment
project has turned up some really cool bits lately. here is a nifty article about using their Epeg bits to easily deal with thumbnailing. Note that they also have a great deal of sample code for things like canvasing and even dealing with network delivery."
Epeg is very, very fast. Directory of 220,000 images, all about 300x300 (website user images, before you ask) - thumbnailed the lot in under a minute.
His reliance on static variables in functions is also yucky. Say hello to code that's never going to be thread safe. The path stuff the parent poster noted is the most breathtaking error though ...