6 year old Gnome bug picks up pace

This bug regarding the Nautilus image thumbnailer performance was reported almost 6 years ago.  It had input on it at the rate of around one message every two months, up until the end of 2003 – then nothing until 2006, where duplicate bug reports start coming in pretty regularly until the end of 2006.  All pretty quiet until then, kind of suddenly, Michael Chudobiak writes a patch that speeds up Nautilus almost 3400%

I used a test folder that had four 15000x400 tif images and four
15000x400 png images (solid colors). Without the patch, it took
Nautilus 4 minutes and 30 seconds to thumbnail the folder. With
the patch, it took 8 seconds.

I'm not clever enough to touch the actual pixop codebase. But
these numbers suggest there is enormous room for improvement!
This bug has been open for 6 years - nudge, nudge.

Because free software is forever we can just afford to get there in the end :)