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2005.09.26 06:22 "Re: Additional Lossless Compression", by Rob Tillaart
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Joris wrote: > > looking into a PCD-type scheme. Support for large images is getting more > > important as the years go by. We've currently got a real problem when > > It may seem counter-intuitive, but I think that image file growth may > peak in the next few years. The reason for this theory is that CPUs > continually grow faster while image pixel counts increase but disk I/O > performance has not increased so spectacularly. It is bit off topic but interesting with regard to disk I/O. Vibrating disks instead of rotating disks could be a disruptive storage technology: http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=958 specs http://www.dataslide.com/techspecs.htm The parallel nature of these disks made me wonder if there are compression schemes that could take advantage of the fact that a growing number of computers will have dual (or more) cores which makes parallel compression and decompression possible. regards, rob tillaart