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Wuffs’ PNG image decoder
Summary: Wuffs’ PNG image decoder is memory-safe but can also clock between 1.22x and 2.75x faster than libpng , the widely used open source C implementation. It’s also faster than the libspng , lodepng and stb_image C libraries as well as the most popular Go and Rust PNG libraries. High performance is achieved by…
- Points
- 462
- HN comments
- 138
- Submissions
- 1
- Cited by
- 3 commenters
Software EngineeringWeb & Frontend2021
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2021 | Wuffs’ PNG image decoder by est31 | 462 | 138 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Apr 2021 to Aug 2025.
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