Oh wow. Someone found a way to speed up image rendering by ~32x (or more?) in the Poppler PDF library, and their solution sat in this comment thread because they're unable to fork the repository 😬
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@nprofile1q... they first need to ask for access at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/groups/freedesktop/-/work_items
because spammers otherwise just abuse our generosity and we can't have nice things
because spammers otherwise just abuse our generosity and we can't have nice things
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