made you look
I’m not sure if there is just some “point of diminishing returns” or whatever where JPG actually becomes more efficient or what.
There is, but it’s at high quality levels. If you’re using WebP for thumbnails or other lower quality situations (Which was the original intended use) then WebP will give you better quality than JPEG for a given filesize.
For lossless uses it’s even better, the format is much more limited than PNG, but in the common cases it beats it.
I take that there isn’t much motivation in moving to 128 because it’s big enough; it’s only 8 cycles (?) to fill a 512 (that can’t be right?).
8 cycles would be an eternity on a modern CPU, they can achieve multiple register sized loads per cycle.
If we do see a CPU with 128 bit addresses anytime soon, it’ll be something like CHERI, where the extra bits are used for flags.
I think CHERI is the only real attempt at a 128 bit system, but it uses the upper 64 bits for metadata, so the address space is still 64 bits.
“Fans claim it may offer an improvement” isn’t exactly a definitive statement.
From what I understand the research does actually show little to no improvement for either mode, which is actually a bit odd because we know the eye performs better the brighter the surroundings (Since it causes the pupil to contract, increasing the depth of field)
Maybe it’s a sign that we just need more research into the effectiveness in interfaces.