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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 yeah, kinda puts into perspective all the 'negative feedback' the Chrome team received for removing JPEG-XL support. I wouldn't want to have such a monstrosity in my code base either, no matter what advantages the actual encoding might have over existing formats.

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