On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Roger Bedell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> So, it kind of looks like there never be a 64 bit JAI (native) for Windows.
>
> As to a slowdown, it perhaps isn't as much as you say, I did some
> comparisons with JAI(Native) on and off with Jpeg CMYK encoded Geotiffs, and
> saw about a 20% performance penalty for serving WMS. With 64 bit Java, we
> can use a whole lot more RAM, which might more than make up the difference.

That's less than I measured in the past in fact, I had a slowdown of a factor 2
by not having both JAI native versions around.
(see this presentation for details:
 
http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2009/SPREP/3Fri/Parkside%20Auditorium/1300/fri%20paud%201400%20aime.odp)

> So, just to get things straight, do imageio and imageio-ext depend on JAI
> Native, and JAI Native is only 64 bit on Linux/Solaris?
>
> Or, does JAI and ImageIO-Ext exist in the Java version (non-native
> libraries)? From the JAI docs:
>
> "JAI can be run without its native acceleration layer without loss of
> functionality".
>
> Doesn't say anything about ImageIO, or ImageIO-ext. Can these be run without
> native acceleration as well? I know GDAL itself is easy to make 64 bit, and
> wouldn't it do a lot of the work?

In both cases as far as I know you only pay a performance penalty, but
functionality
is preserved.
As I said before, you don't loose functionality by not having JAI and
JAI ImageIO
native extensions.

You do lose functionality if you don't have imageio-ext though, by not having
support for a number of raster formats, because unlike JAI and JAI ImageIO,
imageio-ext simply does not work without its native counterpart

Cheers
Andrea


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