[sldev] Cache politics: performance vs obfuscation

[Tateru Nino]

Sean Heying wrote:
>>> Besides, if they're really JPGs, won't some OS's waste time making
>>> cute little thumbnails? :)
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>> Not if you use an extension other than .jpg
>> (I just checked)
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>> Besides, that only happens if you view the directory with Windows Explorer.  It should have no effect
>> on the OpenFile api.
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>> Gary
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> 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.

But as raw image data, there *is* no header for the OS to detect.

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