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by spider-mario 2325 days ago
> Compressors have an interface where you specify desired file size and the program tries to produce a file of that size.

That’s not really the case for JPEG XL, where the main parameter of the reference encoder is in fact a target quality. There is a setting to target a certain file size, but it just runs a search on the quality setting to use.