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		faragon on Dec 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BPG Image format Four times? You can expect the C/C++ version (with some SIMD intrinsics) to run 10-30x faster than the JIT-optimized JS version.

mischanix on Dec 5, 2014 [–]

There is also the overhead of using a canvas element as a render target instead of a normal image surface, and using the canvas API instead of just writing color values straight to a buffer.

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