2017.09.16 19:50 "[Tiff] TIFF tile size limit", by Bob Friesenhahn

2017.09.17 13:45 "Re: [Tiff] TIFF tile size limit", by Bob Friesenhahn

On Sat, 16 Sep 2017, Kemp Watson wrote:

Is that a problem? With memory virtualized to disk, this becomes a storage size problem, which is out of libtiff¹s hands. Big apps will always need big systems.

It is a problem if a 390 byte file causes the reading application to allocate tens of GB of memory.

Bob
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