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 - test fits reader more ... colour?
 
-- we get lots of valgrind errors with fits reading
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-- why do we read_free so often during fits read?
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-- are we triggering im_fits2vips() in each thread?? argh, try tracing
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 - maybe im_draw_smudge() is too slow :-( also, we had a sanity failure with