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Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by ehsankia on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:14AM (#25710562)
This part was a little hidden and hopefully will get better, but it's pretty rough...

> At an 'effort' of 2, it takes a good few seconds to encode. 'Effort' 3 is significantly better, but that can take a couple of minutes. 'Effort' 10 (which I used for images in this article) can take over 10 minutes to encode a single image.

Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by darkfirefly on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:43AM (#25711529)
Two sentences later:

> The command line tools are orders of magnitude faster

and from the previous sentence:

> Encoding AVIF takes a long time in general, but it's especially bad in Squoosh because we're using WebAssembly, which doesn't let us use SIMD or multiple threads

Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by jaffathecake on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:35AM (#25712368)
Also, since I wrote that article, we shipped wasm to Squoosh that makes use of threads. We aren't there with SIMD yet (for AVIF, we have it for some other codecs), but tooling is getting better.
Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by ehsankia on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:45PM (#25721031)
That's awesome. Do you have a rough value on what the best case effort=10 encoding is right now (in CLI, decent computer), compared to the 10m number given above? Will it be 10x faster? 100x faster?