Björn Persson wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I believe that they'd be best advised to say "no", because at this point >> one of JPEG's principal attractions is near-universal compatibility. >> Throwing A/C into the mix will throw that away, for what really is a >> very marginal gain in compression efficiency. > > It's well known around the Internet that to achieve compatibility you should > be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept. Applied to > JPEG: Use only Huffman coding when encoding – except maybe if you know that > all > recipients can handle arithmetic coding – but support both encodings when > decoding. >
Well said. Adding decoding support can do no harm. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
