Show HN: Lines of C, Beats QOI

Category: library

Tags: image-codec, c, lossless-compression, minimalist, qoi-alternative

Score: 5.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 5, Utility: 4)

TinyCodec is a lossless image codec implemented in just 45 lines of C, with a CLI (164 lines) supporting PNG, BMP, PNM/PAM, QOI, and WebP. It outperforms QOI in both compression ratio and speed, and shows impressive performance against libpng and Oxipng, making it an interesting minimalist codec for embedded or performance-sensitive applications.

Target audience: backend devs, embedded developers, performance engineers

Repository: https://github.com/OzzyMitchell/tinycodec · C · Apache-2.0 · 9 stars

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