[fpc-pascal] Why is FPImage dog slow in reading jpeg's?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:
>  > for reading it surely not appropriate regardless of using palette or not).
>  > I guess that some optimization may be reasonable because such pictures
>  > could be loaded and displayed (including conversion from true colour to
>  > 256 colours palette) faster even on a 486 machine...
>  Is there any size, where a palette image is fast?
> 
>  I think this is a newbie trap and the default for UsePalette should be changed.

Not just newbies :-)

http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17621