On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 08:27, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Like I said, the lack of requests for this over the years is strong
> circumstantial evidence that it's not an important enough case to enough
> people to justify the work or the extra API complexity, though if lots of
> people chime in that they have wanted this, I could be convinced.
>

This is definitely something we would use in Gaffer, as we're currently
doing the rescrambling for all IO. But right now I don't have any solid
numbers for how much overhead that represents, so would need to do some
profiling before I could say it justified the effort. My suspicion is we'd
need to optimise other aspects of the processing pipeline before it became
particularly beneficial.

On a more general note, not aimed at OIIO in particular, my experience is
that "nobody asked" isn't necessarily a good indication that all is well.
I'm regularly astounded at the ingenious contortions folks will go through
as a workaround before asking for something.

Cheers...
John
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