2008.10.14 18:00 "[Tiff] debugging on Windows", by Rajmohan Banavi

2008.11.17 17:39 "Re: [Tiff] Memory leak (TIFFOpen, TIFFReadTile)?", by Bob Friesenhahn

I am interested in advice on whether to change TIFFOpen() to *not* use memory mapped IO by default. Presumably the application would need to pass "M" in the open options if they wanted memory mapping when possible.

I am not sure there is a need to change the current default. A read-only memory mapping (as libtiff uses) is much less trouble for a system than read-write memory mappings. The reason for this is that when the system needs to reclaim memory, read-only pages can be simply expired whereas read-write memory mappings need to take care to persist any dirty pages before the page is expired.

Installed system memory is growing by leaps and bounds so it is becoming common that systems have far more RAM installed than the largest TIFF file the system will ever read.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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