[fitsbits] start of Public Comment Period on compressed FITS image and tables

[van Nieuwenhoven, Richard]

Hi,

that would really make no difference 32K rows per block of max 2GB is 
more than enough ;-)

       Ritchie


On 06.07.2015 10:22, THIERRY FORVEILLE wrote:
>   "Richard van Nieuwenhoven" wrote:
>>
>> maybe it would be good also to include the number of rows. So one
>> unsigned integer for the size and one unsigned short for the number of
>> rows. In case the program only needs to read a part of the table/image
>> it can just fast forward over the blocks that would be skipped anyway.
>>
> Just a nitpick, but FITS systematically uses signed integers (due to its
> FORTRAN heritage). I think one would need a very strong reason to introduce
> unsigned ones at this specific point, which there probably isn't.
>


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