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		eviks 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024) > A software JPEG decoder is a weekend project. How many weekend project decoders are used in real apps?

addaon 8 months ago [–]

Seems like a hard thing to know. I’ve only written and shipped one (MJPEG w/ Speex audio slipstreamed in COM blocks), but I’m only one person… so based on that sample, somewhere between zero and the number of software engineers?

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