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They are used widely in games. But, not so much elsewhere. Non-game-app designers get upset by the artifacts. I've shipped games using them for UI. We were
by corysama 5y ago
They are used widely in games. But, not so much elsewhere. Non-game-app designers get upset by the artifacts. I've shipped games using them for UI. We were hapy to tolerate the artifacts in exchange for the 8X memory usage & memory bandwidth reduction (RGBA8888 vs. PVTRC4).
However, I've heard that Netflix was one of the first sponsors of https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal They are shipping innumerable images to a huge variety of underpowered set top boxes. Totally worth investing in a giant-leap memory optimization.