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Image viewer speed benchmark

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skanskan:
Hello
It's interesting you did some true benchmarks.
Some time ago I found myself that acdsee was among the best, algon with fastpictureviewer.
You could also try (and add to the list)
http://www.pictomio.de/Default.aspx
and
http://www.noping.net/kent/osiva/

In my computer acdsee is among the fastests (but not the best) when dealing with small pictures, but with very big ones acdsee is the absolut winner.
The only drawback I see is that it takes to long to start for the first time, and it's not free.

Jibz:
I tried installing FastPictureViewer, but the trial period was only a week, which was nowhere near enough to get any real idea about how it would work imho. It seemed like a good tool to quickly browse and do a rough culling of a set of images you import.

These are tools with different target uses though -- FPV is a real-time viewer, whereas tools like ACDSee and FastStone create databases. In my view this makes FPV good for checking out a set of images you just acquired, whereas it is less useful for managing your collection.

One thing that bothered me about ACDSee is that the viewer does not support holding down a mouse button to show a zoom of an area. This is such an intuitive and easy way to check out details in a photo, I can't believe it's not there.

Writer:
I find viewers that create a database a less than optimal solution. The vast majority of the quicker viewers create a cache or database file. While some of them have an option to turn off caching, display speeds take a hit.

The only one that doesn't cache is Irfanview.

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