Comment by Asm2D

I think Vello CPU would always struggle with raster images, because it does a bounds check for every pixel fetched from a source image. They have at least described this behavior somewhere in Vello PRs.

The obsession for memory safety just doesn't pay off in some cases - if you can batch 64 pixels at once with SIMD it just cannot be compared to a per-pixel processor that has a branch in a path.