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by floxy 319 days ago
> >100,000 line multi-threaded C++

W. T. F. Yeah, if this is the state of the reference implementation, then I'm against JPEG-XL just on moral grounds.
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lifthrasiir 319 days ago
Only because it's both the reference encoder and decoder, and the encoder tends to be a lot more complex than the decoder. (Source: I have developed a partial JPEG XL decoder in the past, and it was <10K lines of C code.)
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bravetraveler 319 days ago
> reference

They aren't going to give you two problems to solve/consider: clever code and novel design.

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