Tile size matters?

[Benjamin Gilbert]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:23:36AM +0200, David De Mena García via openslide-users wrote:
> We have made some test about and there is no perfect combination off tile
> size and number of levels: Ad example, if you work with OpenSeaDragon and
> you have "small" tile size you have to make a lot call the image server to
> get the tiles what it's good if you have a quickly server and slow network
> bat very bad if you have the opposite.  Or if you are processing an image
> counting cells and you have a small tile size you can process more thread
> in parallel because you will consume less memory in every one, but you
> will have a lot of border case (when your patron is in both tiles)...

Maxim's question was about the size of the tiles in the slide file itself. 
Choosing the size of the regions read from OpenSlide by an application, or
the tile size used in a Deep Zoom pyramid, involves a different set of
tradeoffs as you've described.

--Benjamin Gilbert