[superbad]

The merging process after a cooperative render takes too long. Even on a 3 or 4 node network with a simple scene, I often have to wait over an hour for the merge to finish. This makes net rendering impractical for a lot of small and medium sized jobs, as it's nearly just as fast to run it on a singe node, plus I get the real time preview so I know when to stop the job. Anything that can be done to reduce this bottleneck would be greatly appreciated.