On 16 Aug 2012, at 04:41, Marco S Hyman <m...@snafu.org> wrote:

> On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:
> 
>>> The images are typically 25 MB Canon 7D raw image files that have
>>> been pre-alloc'ed and initWithContentsOfFile: 
>> 
>> NSImage doesn't actually load the image pixels until it needs to. Merely 
>> initializing an instance won't do it.
> 
> That matches what I'm seeing. The code didn't originally
> alloc and init the image until just prior to dropping it in
> the image well.  I tried a pre alloc/init on the off chance it
> would make things faster.  Nope.
> 
>> That said, NSImage has changed a lot over time (especially its caching) and 
>> I'm not sure what the best way is to preload an image these days.
> 
> For this application the camera preview jpg inside of the raw image
> would be of good enough quality.  I'm looking at what it would take
> to extract that.

Easy, CGImageSource.


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