Comment by WithinReason

5 years ago

It's much cheaper than decompressing a JPEG

Compressing, perhaps. But decompressing? Not really.

  • Floyd-steinberg dithering is at least an order of magnitude cheaper than JPEG decompression

    • Maybe if all else is equal, but let's not forget you'd be doing the dithering in javascript, and the JPEG decompression is implemented in a low level language, in practice probably hand written assembly (as performance-critical compression code often is).