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Chrome Ships JPEG XL Decoding Support
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Google Chrome begins shipping decoding support for the JPEG XL image format starting from version 155. The team reimplemented the decoder in Rust to ensure memory safety and utilized SIMD instructions for speed. This update offers 30-50% better compression than JPEG and includes built-in HDR support for web developers and photographers.
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