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Re:PNG Is Back by spider-mario on Thursday June 26, 2025 @10:34AM (#44387852)
Lossless JPEG XL encoding is already fast in software and scales very well with the number of cores. With a few cores, it can easily compress 100 megapixels per second or more. (The times you see in the comment with the DPReview samples are single-threaded and for a total of about 400 MP since each image is 101.8MP.)
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Re:PNG Is Back by Nanopolygon on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:50PM (#44390174)
HALIC does almost the same degree of compression tens of times faster. And interestingly, it consumes almost no memory at all. Unfortunately, this is the case.
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Re:PNG Is Back by spider-mario on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:55PM (#44390230)
HALIC being faster still doesn’t mean that lossless JXL is so slow as to warrant hardware acceleration.
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Re:PNG Is Back by Nanopolygon on Thursday June 26, 2025 @03:40PM (#44390566)
Yes, I also think that HALIC should be destroyed ;)
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