I rewrote Firefox's BMP decoder

by nnethercote on 11/6/2015, 4:14 AM with 49 comments
  • by heinrich5991 on 11/6/2015, 10:37 AM

    I kind of hoped that this would be written in Rust. :)

  • by raverbashing on 11/6/2015, 10:51 AM

    BMP was one of the last formats that would be possible to "decode manually" (that is, read the actual data and paint the image from it). PCX was one of the other (using RLE)

    Sure, easier to use a library, but sometimes you have some constraints

  • by 885895 on 11/6/2015, 10:12 AM

    Interesting write-up. Still, why even support BMP?

  • by fazkan on 11/6/2015, 12:42 PM

    How much of the mozillas code is written in C/C++, and for what purpose...