Just to clarify things up, I was not testing with the image library...
I would probably not use MC to handle my image library since:
.I consider the scrolling performance to become a real issue when it comes to image management.
.Though tempting, I'm not convinced yet MC could make a replacement for the other image management tools I am using now.
However MC is clearly valuable when it comes to audio library management so my test have been conducted only with a music library in thumbnail mode (around 1.500 albums)
All thumbnails were built(btw, interestingly you should see how thumbnail building in acdsee doesn't affect the scrolling at all)
I unfortunately confirm that mc scrolling behavior is far from being smooth when run in a 1920x1200 window, be it with 300 or 1500 thumbnail displayed.
The "show stack" option obviously making things worse.
I'm not an expert, and i don't know how other programs achieve a smooth scrolling with the same size and number of thumbnails (some sort of "page" caching ?)
But I'm pretty confident MC thumbnail scrolling could be optimized, particularly for larger display resolution.
Hopefully my machine spec should be more than reasonable:
Dual opteron 285 (that's 4 cores running at 2,6ghz) with 4GB Ram
both 24' display are connected to a GeForce 7900 GTX
Library is stored on a fast (Sustained Transfer Rate of 300MB/s) 4 TB raid array
Best regards,
Thibaud