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by rndgermandude
1645 days ago
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Those poor souls N years later will either have to decode a very few images, which is still fast enough, or decode a lot of images, which can be parallelized and run concurrently on a per-image level. In the very worst case, decode an extremely large single image, you're a bit out of luck, but that case would be rare, and you're still pretty fast at decoding anyway. Creating formats and specs that are "future proof" is a noble goal. Criticizing QOI for not being able to be well parallelized inside the decode function, that seems more like a demand for a premature optimization to me... |
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What? Faster encoding and decoding is one of the primary reasons for the format. Yet, QOI decoders are currently an order of magnitude slower than SSDs available today and even worse compared to DRAM! Now seems like the perfect time to look at possible optimizations to close that gap.