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The current JPEG XL decoder in #Firefox apparently consists more than 100,000 lines of multi-threaded C++

The current JPEG XL decoder in #Firefox apparently consists more than 100,000 lines of multi-threaded C++

For just decoding an image format.

Not sure what it says about the format, the implementation and the Internet at large.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

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  • @bagder@mastodon.social Wait, so JPEG XL isn't completely dead? That's probably not what you meant to communicate but I'm so happy to hear that

    fwiw I think that LOC of the reference implementation doesn't really say anything about anything - even if Firefox "adopted" it, which feels like a sensible choice given the state of things

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