GD vs jpeg-xl

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GD		jpeg-xl
	Project
3	Mentions	42
875	Stars	-
1.0%	Growth	-
6.3	Activity	-
2 months ago	Latest Commit	-
C	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

GD

Posts with mentions or reviews of GD. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-01.

Projects in need of JXL integration?
4 projects | /r/jpegxl | 1 Jan 2022

libgd: https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/699
Problems installing GD and GD::Raw on Windows
1 project | /r/rakulang | 31 Oct 2021

The errors indicate raku can't find the native gd library. I'm guessing you need to install libgd first. See https://github.com/libgd/libgd.
I am a co-creator of JPEG XL (.jxl), a new image format. AMA!
4 projects | /r/AMA | 25 Jul 2021

I know libgd is also has interest in adding it at some point. https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/699

jpeg-xl

Posts with mentions or reviews of jpeg-xl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-13.

Google's decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the need for browser choice and free formats
2 projects | /r/AV1 | 13 Apr 2023

I believe JXL's reference implementation isn't even to version 1 yet. 0.8.1 appears to be the latest. I could see them revisiting this once the reference implementation is considered complete.
Very large (DICOM) microscopy images region and resolution transcoding tiling and resolutions
1 project | /r/jpegxl | 21 Sep 2022

I asked for this a while ago, not sure how things have progressed since then.
H.264 is magic: a technical walkthrough
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2022

That license doesn't say anything about patents. This one does: https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl/-/blob/main/PATENTS and only says that patents owned by Google are covered. So it may be that other companies patent the technology. The information in the repository is not enough to decide whether JPEG XL is safe to use.
https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl
1 project | /r/jxl | 8 Dec 2021
I am a co-creator of JPEG XL (.jxl), a new image format. AMA!
4 projects | /r/AMA | 25 Jul 2021

The GIMP plugin is a great thing. But it still can't open/save images with special chars in their filenames. French, German and many other languages are affected. Could this be fixed soon? https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl/-/issues/184
Here's my googledrive of every current raw scan of my vintage 35mm slide collection of world travel and random families taken from estate sales around the world. Originally scanned 4800-6400dpi as .TIFFs but these are .jpegs. Feel free to comment your insight or download the whole thing. 2000+
1 project | /r/DataHoarder | 25 Jul 2021

https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl/-/blob/main/doc/developing_in_windows.md It's not as straight-forward to build as it is on Linux. I'm not sure if there are official binaries somewhere, sorry.
Improvements to the ubiquitous JPEG image format used across the internet will bring global bandwidth savings of 30 per cent, say the creators of the new technology, who have made it royalty-free.
1 project | /r/science | 4 Jul 2021
Is it possible to convert jxl directly to jxl?
1 project | /r/jpegxl | 23 May 2021
JPEG XL website and conformance testcases published on GitHub
1 project | /r/jpegxl | 17 May 2021

I'm guessing the reference implementation with complete git history is soon to follow? https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl
JPEG XL support has been added to Firefox Nightly! (90.0a1 (2021-05-09)
3 projects | /r/firefox | 13 May 2021

The file format was 'frozen' last December: https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl/-/tags/v0.2 Which is why FF can start implementing its usage.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GD and jpeg-xl you can also consider the following projects:

libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

sharp - High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

jxl-winthumb - A JPEG XL (*.jxl) thumbnail handler for Windows File Explorer.

FreeImage - A custom distribution of FreeImage, with a CMake-based build system. Used by the Athena Game Framework.

highway - Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

Video-Hub-App - Official repository for Video Hub App

tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

highway - Highway - A Modern Javascript Transitions Manager

OpenImageIO - Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.

cavif-rs - AVIF image creator in pure Rust

GD vs libvips jpeg-xl vs sharp GD vs OpenCV jpeg-xl vs jxl-winthumb GD vs FreeImage jpeg-xl vs highway GD vs imagick jpeg-xl vs Video-Hub-App GD vs tesseract-ocr jpeg-xl vs highway GD vs OpenImageIO jpeg-xl vs cavif-rs

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