Has anyone done any studies on whether rendering time takes a hit depending on what type of file you render to? For instance, I presume that rendering to a JPEG file would take longer because some sort of compression has to happen (compression=extra processing=extra time).
Like a good drone, I've kept rendering to BMP files because that's the Microsoft standard and what PWx has been using for years. But boy, I'd hate to be missing out if rendering to a TIFF (or whatever) carried a few percent advantage (just as I expect our JPEG leaning friends on the NG would appreciate finding out if they were getting spanked by their file choice.)
Thanks for any data that you can forward
-Ed