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Wuffs has the fastest, safest PNG decoder in the world (2021)
- fwsgonzo 2y agoAwesome stuff. I will promptly add this in my (rather large) game engine and see how it affects startup!
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- jsnell 2y agoPrevious discussion (462 points, 139 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714831
- perihelions 2y agoI've looked at the (standard) libpng codebase, and it's really surprising how un-optimized it is, for an ultra-popular standard library that's used everywhere. I don't understand the sociology of why everyone uses that implementation, and not a far faster replacement, such as this one. There's quite a few places where PNG decoding is a noticeable, user-facing UX issue, and if you multiply small latencies by billions...