Re: Images in a Multiprocess World

On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:

> I would hope, though, that the network cache, which is planned to be  
> shared,
> would take care of making sure we don't download images twice. Is  
> image
> decoding really an expensive-enough operation that we want to add  
> lots of
> extra machinery?

We already have that extra machinery in the form of the image cache.  
Decoding on its own isn't that expensive, but doing it over and over  
for the same images sucks, and breaks some web consumers (see bug  
466586).