Govips - A lightning fast image processing and resizing library for Go

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I really think having our image processing handled by govips which wraps libvips could provide a lot of additional functionality and could potentially increase performance. Here are some tests to check out:

libvips benchmarks.
libvips speed & memory use
Internals — A high-level technical overview of libvips’s evaluation system

ImageMagick is often recommended for image optimization . This is a good tool, but the result of its work usually needs additional optimization, while other tools do better. We recommend libvips , although it is a lower-level tool and more demanding on the technical skills of the user. At ImageMagick also periodically found security vulnerabilities, which are desirable to know about.

– Eddie Osmani, one of the managers of Google Chrome in Optimizing graphics for the web: the most important

Currently I run all my images through Govips or with the libvips CLI to get the ideal balance of quality to compression.

Any thoughts?

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It seems libvips supports webp as well :smiley:

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And SVG, that would be nice to have.

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Although it’s definitely a plus for libvips, and must-have for any image processor, Hugo does support webp (in case you hadn’t known). However, govips (libvips) provides a plethora of other great features as well.

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My 50 cents about the inclusion of C/C++ libraries in Hugo is that can only happen if

  1. This is a functionality that Hugo really, really needs, and
  2. It’s not available as a native Go library and it it’s not likely to happen in the near future.
  3. It is available from a trusted source with a license that’s compatible with Apache 2.

E.g. LibSASS back in the days, or the Webp encoder from Google.

Govips does not fall into that category, I think.

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Understandable. As for #1 I do think at some point image optimization will need to be revisited.

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