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		tonmoy on Nov 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time I am not familiar with image encodings, but isn’t the idea of complexity relative? For example getting rid of Hoffman encoding and byte aligning everything may be less complex for computers, but when making energy and area efficient hardware, we may not care that much about some of these things?

selcuka on Nov 24, 2021 [–]

For a small number of operations, sure, but when you need to compress a million, or a billion images, the performance optimisations quickly add up.

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