MEMORY-SAFE PNG DECODERS NOW VASTLY OUTPERFORM C PNG LIBRARIES

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Recent benchmarks show that memory-safe Rust-based PNG decoders (image-rs, zune-png, and wuffs) outperform traditional memory-unsafe C libraries (libpng, spng, and stb_image) in decoding speed, achieving up to 1.8x improvement on x86 and 1.5x on ARM.