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Photoshop discovered mmap?

• wongarsu 3y ago
  Except when exporting files, where it still has weird size restrictions (somewhere around 10k pixels per side)
  • cubefox 3y ago
    That's ironic, given that it's a Chrome blog post. Because recently someone here said that Google / the Chrome team used their market power to kill JPEG XL (a proposed jpeg successor) in favor of AVIF, which has weird size restrictions.
• jsheard 3y ago
  This is about the web version of Photoshop, there is no mmap there.
• mike_hock 3y ago
  No, we've (collectively) discovered that we have a lot of mature technologies (like mmap), mature platforms and extremely fast hardware, so we created a crippled software development platform on a bloated layout engine so people can get creative again hacking around the arbitrary constraints and design flaws of the platform to solve problems that had been solved 40 years ago.
  • ElFitz 3y ago
    Web browser did drastically simplify delivery and deliverability though. Not that there wouldn’t have been alternatives had web apps not become a thing. It’s just more user-friendly than most current open alternatives (eg apt-get), and more open than most current user-friendly alternatives (eg app stores).