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On 01/26/2016 02:36 AM, Mat Maher wrote:
> libTiff performance is governed by two factors:
>   1). Performance of disk read/writes
>   2). Performance of compression/decompression routines (eg CPU)
>
> The latter would benefit enormously from multi-threaded implementation, BUT, will ultimately be throttled by the former.
>

Just a thought: What if you are writing to a parallel file system? This 
would involve a number of other issues beyond the scope of the question. 
In the parallel file system case, you might be running on a cluster 
computer, with multiple nodes writing to the same effective file.
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