A 22927×8966 Lightroom panorama opened as its embedded preview with
develop withheld, because no texture could hold it. DevelopSession now
opens a linear DNG past PROXY_EDGE (8192) on a box-reduced copy, and
keeps the full resolution on the CPU. The canvas at fit, the thumbnail,
the histograms and the masks work from the copy; a render finer than
it — the canvas zoomed in, a tile of the export — samples a window cut
from the full resolution, kept while the view stays inside it. The
export renders in halo-grown tiles of 4096 and assembles them.
On the panorama: decode 1.6 s, open 210 ms, canvas 37 ms, a zoomed
window 130 ms, the full-size export 5.9 s.