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Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.

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In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:25:05 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:
> > ... only went back to xv for fast cropping (open, crop, save, and
> > quit is faster than gnu imp chugging through all the plugins during
> > startup.)
> Just timed the startup of GIMP 3.0.4 on my main machine. Took 3 seconds.

Not too bad, I think gnu imp has improved start-up time. But xv is pretty
fast. If you use the keyboard shortcuts instead of the GUI buttons to
start the crop action and then save the file and quit, you only need
the mouse to draw the rectangle.

Flow goes:

	xv /tmp/filename.foo
	c <drag rectangle> <ctrl-s> <enter><enter><enter> q

One enter is to accept the image save options. Then double enter is to
exit the filename box and confirm overwriting. This is suitable for the
sorts of things I usually want a fast crop for.

I'd time it now, but I haven't used it in a few years and libraries
on my system have changed:

$ xv
xv: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.5: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
$ 

(It is installed in ~/bin/ which is how it survived the OS upgrades.
The timestamp says I compiled it in 2016.)

Last time I timed it[*], just for opening and quitting (not editing), I
got these numbers:

time gimp --no-data --no-splash -f /tmp/pyramid.jpg -b '(gimp-quit 0)'
real    0m3.95s

time xv /tmp/pyramid.jpg
real    0m2.04s

time feh /tmp/pyramid.jpg
real    0m0.10s

$ identify /tmp/pyramid.jpg
/tmp/pyramid.jpg JPEG 344x324 344x324+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 47.6KB 0.000u 0:00.000

You can see one of the reasons I like feh for viewing images.

[*] That was December 2016. I do not recall which 2.x version of gnu imp
    I had, and my notes (= old Usenet posts) don't say. I did run strace
    to count system calls:

    $ strace -o /tmp/feh.strace feh /tmp/pyramid.jpg
    $ strace -o /tmp/xv.strace xv /tmp/pyramid.jpg
    $ strace -o /tmp/gimp.strace gimp --no-data --no-splash \
	-f /tmp/pyramid.jpg -b '(gimp-quit 0)'
    $ wc -l /tmp/*.strace
        1067 /tmp/feh.strace
      151202 /tmp/gimp.strace
       49195 /tmp/xv.strace
      201464 total

Elijah
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can't find the pyramid image today, but it was in /tmp/ so...

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