Comment by PetahNZ 3 years ago My server will encode 1,000,000 images itself, but each client will only decode like 10. 3 comments PetahNZ Reply bombcar 3 years ago But you may have fifty million clients, so the total "CPU hours" spend on decoding will outlast encoding.But the person encoding is picking the format, not the decoder. lonjil 3 years ago But the server doesn't necessarily have unlimited time to encode those images. Each of those 1 million images needs to be encoded before it can be sent to a client. okamiueru 3 years ago That isn't saying much or anything.
bombcar 3 years ago But you may have fifty million clients, so the total "CPU hours" spend on decoding will outlast encoding.But the person encoding is picking the format, not the decoder. lonjil 3 years ago But the server doesn't necessarily have unlimited time to encode those images. Each of those 1 million images needs to be encoded before it can be sent to a client.
lonjil 3 years ago But the server doesn't necessarily have unlimited time to encode those images. Each of those 1 million images needs to be encoded before it can be sent to a client.
But you may have fifty million clients, so the total "CPU hours" spend on decoding will outlast encoding.
But the person encoding is picking the format, not the decoder.
But the server doesn't necessarily have unlimited time to encode those images. Each of those 1 million images needs to be encoded before it can be sent to a client.
That isn't saying much or anything.