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Re:Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal by jaffathecake on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:15PM (#46037944)
Fwiw, JPEG XL takes around 2.5x the time to decode as an equivalent AVIF, and has worse compression https://jakearchibald.com/2025/present-and-future-of-progres...
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Re:Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal by eviks on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:34AM (#46042657)
Interesting, looks like another opportunity for Chrome to avoid the Safari mistake

> slow. There's some suggestion that the Apple implementation is running on a single core, so maybe there's room for improvement.

Though their own old attempt was even worse

> of the old behind-a-flag Chromium JPEG XL decoder, and it's over 500% slower (6x) to decode than AVIF.

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