[Shootout-list] Targa decoder

[Jon Harrop]

On Wednesday 11 May 2005 00:01, Isaac Gouy wrote:
> Would a Targa decoder be a suitable benchmark program?
>
> http://www.dadgum.com/james/performance.html

Nice article. I think something along those lines would be a good idea but 
run-length encoding is probably so simple that you'd only end up measuring 
memory or even disk speed.

An arithmetic or LZW compression algorithm might be more appropriate (although 
I think these would still be too simple). Keeping to images, how about a 2D 
Haar wavelet transform to compress the data? Hmm, actually that's given me an 
idea...

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