thermite VS image-png

Compare thermite vs image-png and see what are their differences.

image-png

PNG decoding and encoding library in pure Rust (by image-rs)
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thermite image-png
1 9
155 337
0.6% 2.7%
0.0 8.5
over 2 years ago 19 days ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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thermite

Posts with mentions or reviews of thermite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-07.

image-png

Posts with mentions or reviews of image-png. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-13.
  • png crate gets an ultrafast compression mode, up to 4x faster decompression
    6 projects | /r/rust | 13 Apr 2023
    Encoding images to PNG with the "fast" compression mode is now an order of magnitude faster. This is achieved using a custom Zlib compression implementation that leverages assumptions about the patterns in PNG data to get reasonable compression ratios at phenomenal speeds.
  • Introducing zune-png: extremely fast PNG decoding in Rust
    3 projects | /r/rust | 10 Apr 2023
    However, the latest release of the png crate - published less than a day ago - has an ultrafast compression mode that's slightly faster than the QOI reference implementation at a comparable compression ratio. So basically you get the properties of QOI in a much more widely used image format.
    3 projects | /r/rust | 10 Apr 2023
    The maintainers of png crate are looking to integrate some of these optimizations, and have also been working on performance improvements to the png crate independently from this effort. The initial results are really promising, although there is more work to be done.
  • Announcing zune-jpeg: Rust's fastest JPEG decoder
    7 projects | /r/rust | 1 Mar 2023
    In other areas, miniz_oxide is faster than miniz, Symphonia is faster than ffmpeg on most codecs, the not-yet-announced zune-png beats both libpng and the more heavily optimized libspng, and the png crate is getting considerable improvements too and also beats libpng.
  • Good example of high performance Rust project without unsafe code?
    20 projects | /r/rust | 2 Aug 2022
    gif, png, zune-jpeg are on par with their C counterparts in terms of performance
  • When soundness isn't worth it
    3 projects | /r/rust | 24 Apr 2021
    Fun fact: libpng-sys was so difficult to create safe Rust wrapper for that people just wrote their own, 100% safe Rust PNG decoder: https://github.com/image-rs/image-png
  • Anyone want to speed up a PNG decoder?
    7 projects | /r/rust | 7 Apr 2021
    I didn't get time to finish the full spec for my attempt at a PNG decoder but it was working on common cases and was faster than image-png at the time https://users.rust-lang.org/t/new-rust-png-decoding-library/30952. I suspect it's not the case anymore since it changes it's deflate crate usage. Here is the perf issue on the image crate https://github.com/image-rs/image-png/issues/114. My code was way simpler than the one in the image crate so that might still be worth a read if you are interested.
    7 projects | /r/rust | 7 Apr 2021
    image-png crate achieved automatic vectorization like this. That doesn't apply to Paeth filter though.
  • Wuffs PNG decoder faster than rust
    4 projects | /r/rust | 6 Apr 2021
    The crate actually forbids unsafe. There's nothing necessarily wrong with unsafe code, but not having it provides a nice assurance. Plus if you are willing to tolerate (well audited) unsafe code then you may well be better off just using libpng.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing thermite and image-png you can also consider the following projects:

tiny-skia - A tiny Skia subset ported to Rust

png-decoder - A pure-Rust, no_std compatible PNG decoder

wuffs - Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely

simd-adler32 - A SIMD-accelerated Adler-32 hash algorithm implementation.

screwsat - A simple CDCL(Conflict-Driven-Clause-Learning) SAT solver in Rust.

crates.io - The Rust package registry

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

safety-dance - Auditing crates for unsafe code which can be safely replaced

fast-float-rust - Super-fast float parser in Rust (now part of Rust core)

simd-json - Rust port of simdjson

json-benchmark - nativejson-benchmark in Rust