Re: Optimizing

Hi,

Just very shortly: I did not read the whole discussion I do see both sides a bit and I find the branch idea not bad. Even better I would find if someone would look at gift-feature-extraction.pl and hack it in the way I suggested some while back (having a feature extraction server doing pipe-based IPC with a perl script feeding it image lists). I think this would give *much* more than a factor of two in speed, and probably some of the nastier optimisations in question would get at least partly obsolete, as allocation would take only at the beginning of the FE process.

Julia and others, for testing this would mean that you come up with a file format for lists of filenames (e.g. one file, one line, or something XML-based) and then extract features for all files in the list. Equally welcome would be a resizer and a thumbnailer that would work in a similar fashion. So we would get something quite gnunixy, small tools doing IPC and working together.

Any comments?

Cheers,
Wolfgang

P.S. I will be even less online starting tomorrow evening (latest).