Shrink-on-load decoupled peak heap from source resolution (~18-25 MB per decode
regardless of MP), so the RAM ceiling that justified halving decode concurrency
is gone. max_concurrent_decodes() now defaults to all cores, with an
OXICLOUD_THUMBNAIL_DECODE_CONCURRENCY override for ops tuning.
Measured on the real service path (Semaphore + spawn_blocking), 14 cores:
- 12MP: 92.7 -> 133.7 photos/s (1.44x)
- 24MP: 49.5 -> 69.9 photos/s (1.41x)
peak heap unchanged; cpus*2 yields nothing, confirming cpus is the right ceiling
for CPU-bound work (the gap to 2x is rayon oversubscription -- Task 1.7).
Adds a semaphore-bounded throughput harness (Table D) to the bench example.
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Decode JPEGs at the smallest DCT scale (1/8·1/4·1/2·1/1) whose long axis is
still ≥ the largest needed thumbnail (800px), via jpeg-decoder, instead of a
full-resolution decode through the image crate. The full-res bitmap — the
dominant time and RAM cost — is never materialised. PNG/GIF/WebP and unusual
JPEG colour spaces (CMYK / 16-bit grey) fall back to a full decode.
Extracts the shared decode + EXIF-orientation logic into decode_oriented(),
removing the duplication that existed between render_thumbnail_from_data and
render_all_thumbnails_from_data.
Measured on 14 cores (see benches/BASELINE.md):
- render_all 1.8-2.0× faster (12MP 111->61ms, 48MP 398->203ms)
- peak heap 5.5-14.8× lower, now decoupled from source MP (~18-25MB regardless)
- saturated throughput 3-3.6× (parallel efficiency 4.9×->8.5×)
- quality SSIM 0.987-0.999 (>=0.98 gate), PSNR 47-55dB
Also adds the Phase 0 benchmark harness (gated behind the `bench` feature, zero
prod impact): deterministic image corpus (src/bench_support.rs), criterion
latency bench (benches/thumbnails.rs), and a peak-RAM/throughput/SSIM harness
(examples/bench_thumbnails_mem.rs). Baseline + before/after in benches/BASELINE.md.
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