- Embedding and tagging workers now sleep their backoff interval
(500ms/750ms) only when the queue is empty, the model is not ready,
or a batch errored — previously every batch paid the sleep even with
work pending.
- CLIP preprocessing no longer decodes originals at full resolution:
decode_for_thumbnail is generalized into decode_image_scaled with a
cover mode (shortest side >= target) and the embedder decodes JPEGs
at the smallest DCT scale covering its 224px fill-crop, in parallel
via rayon. The forward pass, not image decode, is now the dominant
embedding cost.
- EXIF orientation is now applied before embedding, so rotated photos
embed the way they are displayed (previously embedded sideways).
Existing stored embeddings are unaffected.
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