The current JPEG XL decoder in #Firefox apparently consists more than 100,000 lines of multi-threaded C++

For just decoding an image format.

Not sure what it says about the format, the implementation and the Internet at large.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

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    3 months ago

    @bagder@mastodon.social @freddy

    and “uses” in this case means “has it available behind a feature flag in their nightly builds, and does not ship it to normal users because of this very issue”