Hmmm, that'll teach me to make pronouncements about what "nobody asked" means. :-)
I think I will open an issue for this, and I'll try to describe all the steps that would need to be performed to fully implement it, and then mark it as "help wanted." I don't have time to do it myself right now, but hopefully with those breadcrumbs, anybody inclined to try will know exactly what to do. > On Oct 16, 2020, at 1:27 AM, John Haddon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 08:27, Larry Gritz <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 -- Larry Gritz [email protected]
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