Is it faster to load Texture with 16bit format?

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• atilim Maintainer

  July 2013 Accepted Answer

  Most probably it increases to load time a bit. Because for 16-bit textures, there is an extra 16-bit conversion step.
  

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• atilim Maintainer

  July 2013 edited July 2013

  On the other hand, I'll be using NEON optimized zlib with the next release. So that (I hope) decompression of .png files will be ~3x faster.
  

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• plamen Member

  July 2013

  Reading from storage is generally slower than decompressing on modern CPUs and NEON will make it even faster, AFAIK there are dedicated instructions for decompression in these NEON units.

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