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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by TomSwirly on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:00AM (#27232184)
That's "compressed," not "optimized".
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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:31AM (#27232717)
GIF also uses a normal compression algorithm so saying “compressed” about frame deltas is unhelpful.
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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by machello13 on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:23AM (#27233665)
Isn't that just... optimizing for space?
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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by galangalalgol on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:38AM (#27232765)
For an image codec I think of those as the same thing. What do you mean by optimized besides compression?
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