[mapserver-users] Ed's Rules for the Best Raster Performance

[Gregor Mosheh]

Jim Klassen wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, has anyone tested the performance of Jpegs vs. GeoTiffs?

Yep. In my tests, GeoTIFF was the fastest format by some margin, even up 
to 2 GB filesizes. That was on 8-CPU machines, too. If you check the 
mailing list archive, you'll likely find the "papers" I posted to the 
list putting real numbers to it.

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