Andale! Opening an image in a directory with thousands of files is much faster. The improvement was two-fold.
- The base library file-entry enumeraton was using standard filesystem iterators. Now there is a native implementation for Windows and Linux (using dirent). In some cases as much as an 8X speedup on retrieving directory contents. The more generic code still exists.
- If a directory had many png images in it, they were all being inspected to see if they contained animated data (apng). This check, which is slow since it requires inspecting the file contents, is now deferred until load time, and is not forced upon every png in the directory.
In addition, the About page now gives more information about the build config, architecture, and packaging method. That is, you can tell if you are running a snap or deb install for example.