[Bug 614918] Re: Terrible wrestool performance with very large executables

[Mike Birch]

STILL active on 16.04. WTF??? Ubuntu Gnome Flashback Metacity, drag and drop a 2Gb self-extracting exe (even renamed to .ex_) and the system grinds to a halt as wrestool tries to do a completely unnecessary (and unwanted) activity.
Do not read the entire file into memory just to extract an icon. A. I really don't care and B. it's an OS function which should, therefore, be lean and mean.

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Title:
  Terrible wrestool performance with very large executables

Status in icoutils package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: icoutils

  If I use gnome-exe-thumbnailer to thumbnail a moderately old World of
  Warcraft folder (which contains several multi-gigabyte executables),
  the computer tends to thrash as the whole file is loaded into memory.

  I'm not 100% sure if it's possible, but it seems like performance
  would be greatly improved if only the initial part of the file is
  needed to extract the icon.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: icoutils 0.26.0-4ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Aug  7 22:52:44 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: icoutils

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