Dramatic improvement in JPEG image loading speed

February 27, 2017 jpeg

We have redesigned the extension of Digi3D.NET which is responsible for loading images in JPEG format to make the loading of such images much faster. Now the extension uses the buffered mode that allows to reload the same image several times and also we have moved to libjpeg-turbo, so that the decompression uses the SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, AVX2, NEON, AltiVec) of the processor. The result is impressive as you can see below:

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