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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 I think it is a bit misleading (and arguably unfair) to attribute this to Firefox specifically: this is the reference jpeg-xl implementation, originally created and maintained by Google, and in widespread experimental use across all kinds of browsers, including Chromium, Safari, Edge and more

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