[gdal-dev] GDAL /vsistdin/ 1MB limit

[Robert Coup]

On Wed, 5 May 2021 at 03:02, Romeo Alvaraz <THESUSHIMAN12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just wondering  if there is another handler/method you could suggest
> that could feed the input directly to gdal_translate in order to bypass use
> of file system?

If your data easily fits in memory, write it to a tmpfs filesystem
(eg: to /dev/shm/my.pdf)? Doesn't touch the disk so you get the same
performance without the downside of it needing to work as a stream.

Rob :)