On Thursday 2014-10-16 19:45 -0300, Andreas Gal wrote:
> The code is really bizarre, needlessly complex and impossible to understand 
> and maintain. We could use a lot of improvements in this area to better 
> decide what images to load when and how and when to retain or purge them.

Seth has been doing a lot of work on cleaning up the image code
lately, most recently on rewriting the caching behavior (including
adding the ability to store more than one decoded form of an image,
which enables things like downscale-on-decode), which is currently
in-progress.

-David

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