Re: [GRASS-dev] disabling compression

2012-04-25 Thread Glynn Clements
Benjamin Ducke wrote: > According to the docs, GRASS_INT_ZLIB can be set to use > LZW instead of RLE compression. Actually, it's zlib's "deflate" (LZ77-based) compression; zlib was created because LZW (which was used by the Unix "compress" utility) was covered by patents at the time. > But as f

Re: [GRASS-dev] disabling compression

2012-04-25 Thread Benjamin Ducke
According to the docs, GRASS_INT_ZLIB can be set to use LZW instead of RLE compression. But as far as I can see, there is not yet a way to completely prevent rasters from being compressed at creation time? Ben On 04/25/2012 09:24 AM, Maris Nartiss wrote: There's already an existing GRASS_INT_

Re: [GRASS-dev] disabling compression

2012-04-25 Thread Maris Nartiss
There's already an existing GRASS_INT_ZLIB env variable. There should be only one env variable to enable/disable raster compression. Just my 0.002 Verizon cents. Maris. 2012. gada 24. aprīlis 18:02 Jim Regetz rakstīja: > Chagrined by a performance hit apparently involving zlib compression, I >

[GRASS-dev] disabling compression

2012-04-24 Thread Jim Regetz
Chagrined by a performance hit apparently involving zlib compression, I patched my local GRASS 7.0 to accept an environment variable that disables raster compression. At least for the particular DCELL rasters I've been using, this yields a ~5x improvement in run time during write operations, at