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by mistercow 2654 days ago
That would be all well and good, but the page specifically claims that using dithered images lowers energy use.
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They may have ran metrics on decoding processing time neƩ energy usage
I doubt it. The only study I could find on energy usage in image decoding was this

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7168333

which found JPEG decoding to be much less energy intensive than PNG decoding, mostly because it's faster. Note that that's not just a function of file size, as lower quality JPEGs actually took more energy to decode.

Which all makes a lot of sense when you consider how much work has gone into optimizing frequency domain based compression and decompression.