[Thunar-dev] A Standard for Thumbnailers

[Benedikt Meurer]

Erlend Davidson wrote:
> The latter would be more useful I think - a kind of faster drop-in 
> replacement for convert that only does thumbnails, although am I correct 
> in saying pipes (|) are relatively slow?

Pipes are simply buffers in the kernel, with a reader and a writer. If
you want to avoid the syscalls involved here and the two processes,
you'll need to write your own version of dcraw.

Benedikt