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2004.04.26 12:05 "Re: Large TIFF files", by John Aldridge
Joris wrote: > - Such tricky descisions should be left to the higher level, not the lower, as > at least on that level there *may* be more information available, and at least > that way it's the library user's responsability to select. (Remember the library > user (code) selects tiles or strips. So why shouldn't he be the one to select 32 > or 64bit flavor?) That's quite an illuminating example. There are still lots of applications which don't support tiled Tiff, with the result that it's not useful as a general purpose image interchange format. If data written in 64-bit mode is not compatible with 32-bit code in so far as that is possible, then it won't be widely supported in the forseeable future. That doesn't make it useless: within a single organisation it'd be perfectly possible to use such a format for image storage; but don't expect to be able to distribute such an image outside that controlled environment. > > I expect > > that after such > > experience most programmers will select 64 bit, or there must be a hard > > requirement > > for 32 bit only. > > In time, like couple of years or so, that is bound to happen either way (if ever > we stop rambling and do some actual work, that is). It is not a bad thing. I don't believe it, unfortunately. -- John