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Image encoding performance

The compute cost of compressing raster images into formats such as PNG and JPEG, and the trade-offs between speed, size and features like transparency.

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Oizom's Go heatmap service spent 80% of each render encoding PNGs

Oizom replaced an hourly Python heatmap job with an on-demand Go service that renders 20 air-quality images in 30 ms. Per-function timing then traced 80% of each render to PNG encoding, on test images small enough to keep the interpolation cheap.

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