In article <fnMIOTUUN9bxt3LPOpYLvXWLF9LA@4ax.com>, Glen Berry 
<7no### [at] ezwvcom> wrote:

> We could probably at least arrange to store only the attributes that 
> a given filter actually needs, instead of storing everything. That 
> way, a extremely large temp file would only be generated if you used 
> a filter that required one.

This is already done...each filter has a set of flags for the types of 
information it uses, and only that information is saved. Or were you 
talking about only saving information for pixels that will be used? That 
probably wouldn't have much of a gain, since most filters use all of the 
pixels...

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