Wuffs PNG decoder faster than rust

• wuffs

  80 3,743 9.4 C

  Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely

  

I was looking at the Rust benchmark's decode function and the color encoding conversion caught my eye. I was curious if I could force the compiler to remove the bounds checks on each access... but no luck!

• rust

  2,682 92,831 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

Looks like this may be the relevant issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/71997

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• image-png

  9 342 8.4 Rust

  PNG decoding and encoding library in pure Rust

  

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.

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