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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 24 Jan 2004 15:32:03
Message: <221be1-049.ln1@triton.imagico.de>

Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
> Actually it is more of an issue with an external program. It is called 
> wasted time. It may only be 4-5 minutes, but it is still time you spend 
> screwing with an external program (that may even crash in some cases with 
> an image 1G in size)[...]

Sorry but this is complete nonsense, i have been cutting subsets from 
large images for a long time now and it does not take any longer than to 
parse such images in POV (why should it - it is essentially the same 
operation).  And the  memory use while doing that is minimal.

Christoph

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