Re: List of all availabe attributes in an exr file

I see, you meant image access speed, not metadata access.

Yes, it would have been nice to have the line/tile offset table stored at a fixed location in the file, to totally streamline pixel access.  Oh well.



On Nov 19, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Lars Borg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Larry,
> 
> Agreed. Metadata access would not be inherently faster with XMP.
> 
> However, unless you have a fixed offset to the line table, image access
> would be faster, as there would be fewer attributes to slog through byte
> by byte to find the line table. (StringVector or any other form of
> attribute aggregator would solve that problem as well.)
> And image access speed is usually a greater concern.
> 
> Lars
> 

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