>>
>> As I said: it decompresses with 2GB/second. How much slower would the
>> startup
>> be for a 22MB image?
>> (The idea would be to only do that for small images)
>>
>> To quote https://code.google.com/p/lz4/
>>
>> “…. extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core,
>> typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems."
>>
>> Marcus
>
> Are you sure it's worth the added complexity of a self-decoding image in lz4
> (as well as a dependency on yet one more external item)?
>
LZ4 makes sense in general even for other things… (in image use for
compression) and it is tiny.
Marcus
