[sldev] Cache politics: performance vs obfuscation

[Jason Giglio]

Strife Onizuka wrote:
> Has anyone considered switching to JPEG XR? It's supposed to be faster
> and give better compression. I'm not advocating that images should be
> re-encoded, just that all new images would be uploaded in the JPEG XR
> format instead of JPEG2000. JPEG XR also does a good job of dealing
> with large images, allowing for decoding at various resolutions and
> sections of the image (this would be beneficial to SL).
> 

"Faster" doesn't mean much if it's so obscure that highly optimized
decoding libraries (that work on 3 platforms) don't exist.

-Jason
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