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Re: Concurrent loading of images ?
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Re: Concurrent loading of images ?


  • Subject: Re: Concurrent loading of images ?
  • From: Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 14:44:02 +0200

Again, thanks a lot for all the helpful hints.

Before restructuring my code, I did a few timings, using a set of test images
ranging in size from 30 through 300 MB.
I used mach_absolute_time() for this experiment.
And now, I am confused.

These are the execution times I have found for some of the methods that I
invoke in the process of loading and displaying the next image:

CGImageSourceCreateWithURL:         0.4-1.4 millisec
CGImageSourceGetStatus:             10-600  microsec
CGImageSourceCopyPropertiesAtIndex: 0.8-9   millisec
CGImageSourceCreateImageAtIndex:    15      microsec
convertToNSImage (*):               25      microsec
imgLayer.contents = nsimage:        1-5     microsec
removeFromSuperlayer:               0.1     microsec
addSublayer:                        5-10    microsec

(*): this is a wrapper method of mine that does a few calls to
CIImage/NSImage/NSCIImageRep methods.

Overall, none of the methods I invoke seems to incur a long execution time.
Yet, there is a noticeable lag when my app switches from one image to the next
one.
I can tell because all layers have an animation assigned.
Sometimes , there is even a stutter in the animation itself.

But it doesn't seem like it makes sense at this point to load images in a
concurrent/background dispatch queue, does it?

So, I am confused: where is the lag coming from?

Any ideas how I might be able to prevent the lag/stutter when loading and
switching to big images?


Best, G.

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