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in thread Strategy for managing a very large database with Perl

The problem with compression is that it screws up random access. I probably shouldn't even have mentioned it.

Uncompressed, you can read the 28-bytes associated with any given "pixel" in the twinkling of an eye. If you have to read and decompress--even in memory--the entire file to get at each pixel, it isn't going to help performance. And the OP says he is unconcerned with space.

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