Tim Cook wrote:
> Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
>> If your render really needs the full image that is larger than your 
>> memory you will suffer significant performace penalties with this.
> 
> 
> Better than the ultimate performance penalty of not being able to use an 
> image larger than your memory at all...;)

No.  you can already use that large images right now - your OS swapping 
and address space permitting.  You don't do this though because the 
performance loss makes it unfeasible. This isn't different with 
'on-demand' reading of image data from disk (except parsing might be a 
bit faster in the latter case).

Christoph

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