[Rabbit-dev] JPEG

[Samat K Jain]

On Tuesday 27 October 2009 11:54:42 am, Robert Olofsson wrote:
> That is indeed simple, but there are a few reasons why rabbit does not use it.
> 
> 1) When rabbit came into existence there were no such classes
> 2) The JPEGImageEncoder used to be very slow (probably better now)
> 3) The JPEGImageEncoder used to be unstable (= jvm crash)
> 4) Resource usage of the proxy can grow very much if there are many 
>    concurrent image conversions.
> 
> But you are right to query this and I actually do think that it is
> time to revisit the issue. 
> 
> Writing a java class that runs at most X concurrent conversions is not
> that hard and could very well be a good alternative for forking a convert
> process.

Could this explanation be added as a FAQ item?

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