Proposal to Replace Deflate with Zstandard or LZ4 for Faster .PNG Processing
One of the issues we have with .PNG is slow read/write times. There are now new lossless open source codecs without patent concerns, such as Zstandard (maintained by Facebook) or LZ4
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misa77: A new LZ-based compression codec achieving 1.5-3x faster decompression than LZ4 on x86 and ARM
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github.com·1d ago
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