QOI, the standard Earlier this month I wrote about an exciting new image format that was an option for simple and fast encoding while also being on par with state of the art formats. QOI was lossless, compressed about as well as PNG and was about as fast as an image can get to encode and decode. Dominic Szablewski …

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QOI There is a new image format in town. It is about on par with PNG for compression, and only encodes RGB and RGBA. What is interesting about it is how simple it is, and as a result of that simplicity how fast it is. So fast that it has achieved essentially O(n) which is the optimal performance scale for an image. …

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Cover image from Wikipedia. Word sizes We have a range of word sizes with computers. If you have used a wide range of machines you may have even seen bytes with more or less than 8 bits. We have standardized on 8 bits in a byte in the last 40 decades. Characters can be 8, 16, 32 or a variable number of bytes depending …

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