2017.02.06 20:43 "[Tiff] Qs about support for more than 2^16 IFDs and writing performance", by Dinesh Iyer

2017.02.07 00:42 "Re: [Tiff] Qs about support for more than 2^16 IFDs and writing performance", by AG

> On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:04 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:

The linear scan is perhaps not the fastest algorithm but it should not take terribly long (much less than a second) to scan 65535 entries.

If you need to extract a single image the linear scan is not a major problem. If however you need to extract more images, your linear scan becomes O(N^2) which in my experience becomes prohibitively expensive for large stacks.

It would also be good if the 65535 limit is removed but I have not yet received any customer complaints about that.

A.G.