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golf

• Dylan16807 4y ago
  Golf of what sort? It's hard to beat RLE or RLE+palette for minimal code size. I'd expect either one of those to be a tenth the size of a QOI decoder.
  • adgjlsfhk1 4y ago
    these do well on synthetic images but really poorly with noise. QOI manages pretty good performance even with noise.
    • Dylan16807 4y ago
      That doesn't really explain the code golf answer.
      • eps 4y ago
        QOI is in the same ballpark as RLE simplicty-wise but performs much better in a larger number of common cases. That's very much "golf".
        • Dylan16807 4y ago
          I don't know about that. My estimate would be that QOI is ten times as complex as RLE and ten times less complex than DEFLATE-style compression. It could (barely) share a ballpark with either one.