add DICOM (aka supp 145) support #142 Build Problem

[Benjamin Gilbert]

On 09/10/2015 03:10 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> I've seen
>> <https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/376>; are there other
>> problems with OpenJPEG?
>
> Long story short, this should not be an issue for OpenSlide, since you
> pretty much require direct file access, so fread should be pretty
> cheap (ideally would need an fseek instead).

Ah, I misunderstood your use of "streaming" in that bug.  I thought #376 
covered the material actually covered by #94.

> Again this is OT here, but even if #94 gets fixed other part of code
> will need to be updated. Right now OpenJPEG requires enormous amount
> of memory if you request the bottom-right pixel, which makes OpenSlide
> pretty much useless for JPEG2000/WSI.

Do you think this will be fixed within a small number of years?

--Benjamin Gilbert