The goal of .map file to be memory-mapped
directly without transformation, so they are by their
very nature architecture-specific. They're whole
benefit is that they are directly in the memory
format. If they were not, then they would not
have any benefits over normal file formats.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Jones
>
> ouch - architecture specific image format - who was the
> genius behind that idea?
>
> On 3/27/07, Halfdan Ingvarsson <hingvars(at)softimage.com> wrote:
> > Yes. Map files are essentially a memory dump of the
> internal image format that mental ray uses.
> >
> > mr will happily load them from other platforms but doesn't
> make any guarantees about their usefulness in that case.
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