How to improve the performance of g.drawImage() method for resizing images

Question

I have an application where users are able to upload pictures in albums but naturally the uploaded images need to be resized so there are also thumbs available and the shown

Answer 1

Some improvement in performance (perhaps small, perhaps negligible, perhaps at the expense of quality) can be attained by tweaking the rendering hints. E.g.

    g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, 
               RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);