[sldev] Cache politics: performance vs obfuscation

[Strife Onizuka]

*cough* well it is new and hasn't been accepted as a standard as of
yet, should be only a matter of time before we see third party
libraries. Assuming we can get proper rendering support for JPEG XR,
it would reduce posterization and color washout (which would be cool).
I was more thinking of this as something to keep an eye on for the
long term. I totally agree that for the short term it's not feasible.

Strife

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Jason Giglio <gigstaggart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>