Zune-png

A fast, correct and safe png decoder

Limitations

• This decoder (currently) expands images with less than 8 bpp to be 8 bits(one byte) automatically. This may or may not be desired depending on your use cases.
• No support for the non-standard APNG (animation) extension.

Features

• Fast deflate decoder
• Vectorized filters and bit manipulation
• Memory friendly (few allocations)
• Zero unsafe outside of platform specific intrinsics

Usage

First, include this in your Cargo.toml

toml [dependencies] zune-png = "0.2.0"

Then you can access the decoder in your library/binary.

rust use zune_png::PngDecoder; // decode bytes let decoder = PngDecoder::new(b"bytes").decode().unwrap();

Debug vs release

The decoder heavily relies on platform specific intrinsics, namely AVX2 and SSE to gain speed-ups in decoding, but they perform poorly in debug builds. To get reasonable performance even when compiling your program in debug mode, add this to your Cargo.toml:

```toml

zune-png package will be always built with optimizations

[profile.dev.package.zune-png] opt-level = 3 ```

Benchmarks

The updated benchmarks comparing this decoder with other Rust and C decoders can be found here with the png prefix. Benchmarks are updated regularly to keep up with optimizations added.