[sldev] Cache politics: performance vs obfuscation

Sean Heying jayden.beresford at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 16:22:11 PDT 2008


>>
>> Besides, if they're really JPGs, won't some OS's waste time making
>> cute little thumbnails? :)
>>

> Not if you use an extension other than .jpg
> (I just checked)

> Besides, that only happens if you view the directory with Windows Explorer.  It should have no effect
> on the OpenFile api.

> Gary

You have assumed Windows ;) OS X and Linux do not care what the
extension is. They create pretty little thumbnails based on the header
of the file.


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