Re: Slow image display over network

[Leo]

On 2010-09-24 13:05 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> If you look at the imagemagick loader, there is an attempt there at
> image "pinging", figuring out stuff about images withouth actualy
> loading them. The pinging there is done to avoid loading an entire
> image stack when you only want one image index in the stack. Maybe
> this ping code could be generalized and exposed to lisp. I've noticed
> the need myself several times.

Is "pinging" about obtaining the metainfo of an image? I think that is
useful in general.

Leo