If you want to display many thumbnails (or images in general) why not use the 
ImageKit?

It’s what it was designed for. Check out IK* files.

“The IKImageBrowserView class is a view for displaying and browsing a large 
amount of images and movies efficiently.”


On Jul 25, 2011, at 3:04 PM, James Merkel wrote:

> What is the fastest way to generate and display a thumbnail from a digital 
> camera file?
> In the past I used NSImage -- however the quality (with JPEG files) leaves 
> something to be desired. Now I am using CIImage with Lanczos scale transform 
> -- quality is very good but it is slow (particularly with raw files).
> 
> Should I be using the thumbnail capability of Image I/O? Will it have as good 
> a  quality as CIImage, but be faster?
> 
> I am comparing the speed of my app (running in Xcode) with the speed of 
> Preview. Preview is much faster ( 2x or 3X). I wonder what they are doing.
> 
> Of course the fastest way to display a thumbnail is to use the thumbnail in 
> the file (assuming there is one). But that's the problem, there may not be a 
> thumbnail in the file, in which case you need to create one yourself.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Jim Merkel
> 
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