On Sun, 11 Dec 2022, Even Rouault wrote:

The unfortunate quadratic performance of IFD looping detection is not something new. I can reproduce it with older libtiff too. We'd probably need the equivalent of std::set<uint64_t> setOfIFDOffsets to have good performance

I have heard over and over that a Bloom filter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter) is a the solution for this type of problem.

Bob
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