Thumbnails are now generated eagerly as lossy WebP (the primary codec) and
served to clients that advertise `Accept: image/webp`; JPEG is kept as a lazy
fallback for older clients and NextCloud, generated on first request and then
cached like WebP.
- ThumbnailFormat{Webp,Jpeg} enum threaded through encode/render/generate, the
on-disk path ({hash}.webp / {hash}.jpg), the moka cache key
(file_id, size, format), and cleanup (both formats removed).
- file_handler: parse Accept -> format, format-keyed ETag, `Vary: Accept` on
every response (incl. 304) so shared caches never serve the wrong codec;
Content-Type is byte-sniffed (infer) so it always matches the bytes.
- preview_handler (NextCloud) pins JPEG.
- webp = "0.3" (vendored libwebp via cc, no system dependency).
WEBP_QUALITY=82, chosen via a quality sweep (bench Table E1): SSIM within
~0.005 of JPEG q80 (imperceptible at thumbnail scale) for ~62% fewer bytes. On
the photo-realistic bench corpus the full set (3 sizes x 3 photos) drops 65.6%
(213->73 KB); real photos with edges/text land nearer ~25-40%. Encode is +5ms,
paid once in the eager background generator (off the request path).
The bench corpus is now photo-realistic (per-channel sums of low-frequency
sinusoids) instead of white noise, which had distorted codec byte ratios.
Methodology + numbers in benches/WEBP.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Decode JPEGs at the smallest DCT scale (1/8·1/4·1/2·1/1) whose long axis is
still ≥ the largest needed thumbnail (800px), via jpeg-decoder, instead of a
full-resolution decode through the image crate. The full-res bitmap — the
dominant time and RAM cost — is never materialised. PNG/GIF/WebP and unusual
JPEG colour spaces (CMYK / 16-bit grey) fall back to a full decode.
Extracts the shared decode + EXIF-orientation logic into decode_oriented(),
removing the duplication that existed between render_thumbnail_from_data and
render_all_thumbnails_from_data.
Measured on 14 cores (see benches/BASELINE.md):
- render_all 1.8-2.0× faster (12MP 111->61ms, 48MP 398->203ms)
- peak heap 5.5-14.8× lower, now decoupled from source MP (~18-25MB regardless)
- saturated throughput 3-3.6× (parallel efficiency 4.9×->8.5×)
- quality SSIM 0.987-0.999 (>=0.98 gate), PSNR 47-55dB
Also adds the Phase 0 benchmark harness (gated behind the `bench` feature, zero
prod impact): deterministic image corpus (src/bench_support.rs), criterion
latency bench (benches/thumbnails.rs), and a peak-RAM/throughput/SSIM harness
(examples/bench_thumbnails_mem.rs). Baseline + before/after in benches/BASELINE.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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