IMAGE CACHING SYSTEM TO SUPPORT FAST SCROLLING OF IMAGES IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

A system for image caching is described. The system may include a non-volatile memory to store encoded images, a volatile memory including an image cache, and a processing device to retrieve one or more of the encoded images from the non-volatile memory using a fetching thread, distribute the retrieved images to multiple decoding threads to decode the retrieved images, and store the decoded images in the image cache for use by a rendering application.