Leo Trottier wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I suppose I'm a bit confused --  I thought that jpeglib, part of which
> is implemented by PIL (??)

Other way around. PIL uses jpeglib to read JPEG files.

> could process compressed images without
> representing decompressing them to a dense raster-image matrix
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeglib).

However, PIL does not use make use of such capabilities. It just reads in the 
data into uncompressed memory just like it does with any other image format.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco


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