Show HN: Lines of C, Beats QOI

By ozzymitchell · 2026-10-04 · 1 points · 0 comments

https://github.com/OzzyMitchell/tinycodec

Hi. I made tinycodec. A lossless image codec that, on aggregate from my 3,167 image corpus, beat QOI on encoding speed, decoding speed, and file size. There's also an available readable version, which is 164 lines of C code, the golfed version being 45. Apache-2.0.

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