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Memory-Safe WebP Decoding

69 points · 28 comments · computerbuster

  1. F3nd0 · · focus · HN ↗
    Not directly mentioned in the article: The decoder is licensed as free software and/but seems to have been developed with extensive use of Claude.

    It’s neat that you can compile it without hand-written assembly for more safety, but what does the performance look like in that case? I assume the presented benchmarks don’t show this?

    1. yhjc2692 · · focus · HN ↗
      Also curious. Especially since handwritten (or worse, LLM-written) assembly is somewhat on the opposite direction of provably memory-safe
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