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Yes. One of the best features of png is that I don't have to wonder if it's going to work somewhere. Throwing that away in favor of a bit of premature optimization seems like a big loss. Especially as this wouldn't be the only modernized image compression format out there. Why use this over, eg, lossless webp?

I don't think I have ever noticed the decode time of a png.



>I don't think I have ever noticed the decode time of a png.

When it was developed, 200 Mhz Pentium was the current tech. Back of the envelope numbers (ie. chatgpt) says my current desktop CPU (i7-14700K) decodes 7000x faster.


PNG is fully serial, no? So 7000x seems like a big over exaggeration


I assumed decoding multiple files in parallel. I think very few websites have just one PNG file.




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