UIImage decompression causing scrolling lag

Question

I have this app with a full screen tableView that displays a bunch of tiny images. Those images are pulled from the web, processed on a background thread, and then saved to disk

Answer 1

Another way image decompression:

 NS_INLINE void forceImageDecompression(UIImage *image)
 {
  CGImageRef imageRef = [image CGImage];
  CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
  CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, CGImageGetWidth(imageRef), CGImageGetHeight(imageRef), 8, CGImageGetWidth(imageRef) * 4, colorSpace,kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst | kCGBitmapByteOrder32Little);
  CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
  if (!context) { NSLog(@"Could not create context for image decompression"); return; }
  CGContextDrawImage(context, (CGRect){{0.0f, 0.0f}, {CGImageGetWidth(imageRef), CGImageGetHeight(imageRef)}}, imageRef);
  CFRelease(context);
}

Using:

    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_BACKGROUND, 0), ^{
  UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%u.jpg", pageIndex]];
  forceImageDecompression(image);

  dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ 
    [((UIImageView*)page)setImage:image];
  });
}