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Re:Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails by cstuder on Monday January 27, 2014 @02:56PM (#7132738)
What about a sprites-like system?

Since you pretty much know which pictures the user will request, just glue the next 100 thumbnails together into one big picture and then take it apart again on the device.

Re:Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails by elwell on Monday January 27, 2014 @04:50PM (#7133518)