2005.09.23 21:11 "[Tiff] Additional Lossless Compression Schemes", by Frank
Warmerdam
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2005.09.26 06:22 "Re: [Tiff] Additional Lossless Compression", by Rob van den Tillaart
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
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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