Re:macOS 14 will support JPEG XL
by pgeorgi on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:15PM
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Hardware accelerated handling was one of the arguments used to oppose a WASM based implementation that sites could use at will to prove that there's demand for JPEG-XL support (and that the Chrome team provides, by the way).
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No it wasn't. WASM implementations are simply slower than native support. No browser uses HW accelerated decode for AVIF images or JXL. I think Safari might use HW for JPEG, but that's it across all browsers.
>> Hardware accelerated handling was one of the arguments used to oppose a WASM based implementation
> No it wasn't.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33935355: "Wasm does not have the hardware acceleration necessary to efficiently do codecs."