I see, you meant image access speed, not metadata access. Yes, it would have been nice to have the line/tile offset table stored at a fixed location in the file, to totally streamline pixel access. Oh well.
On Nov 19, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Lars Borg <[email protected]> wrote: > Larry, > > Agreed. Metadata access would not be inherently faster with XMP. > > However, unless you have a fixed offset to the line table, image access > would be faster, as there would be fewer attributes to slog through byte > by byte to find the line table. (StringVector or any other form of > attribute aggregator would solve that problem as well.) > And image access speed is usually a greater concern. > > Lars > -- Larry Gritz [email protected] _______________________________________________ Openexr-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/openexr-devel
