Re: libspng: a modern libpng alternative

On 9/12/18 9:58 AM, Randy via png-mng-implement wrote:
> libspng(https://libspng.org) is a C library for reading and writing
> Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format files with a focus on security
> and ease of use.
> 
> It is written from scratch in C99 as an alternative to libpng, it does
> not share
> any code. It is faster at decoding than libpng when compiled with
> profile-guided optimizations.
> 
> Currently in alpha, it can decode any PNG image to 8/16-bit RGBA, it
> supports
> gamma correction and the equivalent of png_set_tRNS_to_alpha(). Encoding and
> "PNG editor" support is planned.


the majority of PNG decoding involves decompression.  That has been
broken before, FWIW.  I would be very weary.

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