That's true. We've tried enabling GDAL's compression (written in C++ IIRC) on our TIFF files, but the combined compress+write/read+decompress is slower than wri

That's true. We've tried enabling GDAL's compression (written in C++ IIRC) on our TIFF files, but the combined compress+write/read+decompress is slower than writing/reading the uncompressed file to/from disk.