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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 07:05:31 +0100
From: Rainer Wiesenfarth <wiesenfarth@zeiss.de>
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Shabd wrote:
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> I have compiled the Sam'a fabulous tifflib for win32. Now I am trying to optimize the code for both size and speed. Here are a couple of changes I plan to make.
> [...]

Be careful what you do!

If you change the libtiff code you should assure that it still compiles
under the other platforms. Portability of software always introduces
some performance penalties. Vice versa, the more you optimize the code
for one platform the less portable it will be.

Greetings Rainer

> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Shabd Vaid
> shabdv@aracnet.com

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