This release features the following improvements to decompression :
- large speed improvement for tiled images, particularly for those with
TLMmarkers - support for true progressive decompression by layer - no duplicate decompression of overlapping layers
- support for asynchronous decompression: client can efficiently wait for a particular tile or for the entire image to be decompressed.
- improved Python bindings and viewer
- efficient decompression over network using
libcurl, with support forS3andMinIOstorage. Speed of network decompression can rival local file decompression, depending on network latency. - integration with
GDALthrough downstreamJP2Grokdriver - many bug fixes
The core_decompress example demonstrates how many of these new features are used.