Animated GIFs often burn huge amounts of CPU on my machine. A page full of GIFs can bring a modern computer to its knees. (This is one reason many image sharing sites convert uploated GIFs to proper video files, mp4 or webm or whatever.)
I’ve never quite understood why implementations of GIF viewers in web browsers were so bad. In many cases it seems like they could cache every frame in GPU memory somewhere and very cheaply loop them. Caveat: I haven’t studied this in any detail, and am not an expert on image/video formats.
I’ve never quite understood why implementations of GIF viewers in web browsers were so bad. In many cases it seems like they could cache every frame in GPU memory somewhere and very cheaply loop them. Caveat: I haven’t studied this in any detail, and am not an expert on image/video formats.