RFR: 8374377: PNGImageDecoder Slow For 8-bit PNGs
Jeremy Wood
jwood at openjdk.org
Sun Dec 28 02:29:51 UTC 2025
When decoding an uninterlaced 8-bit PNG image, the PNGImageDecoder is basically copying one byte at a time.
This PR uses System.arraycopy instead, and it shows approx a 10% improvement.
This graph shows the time it takes different decoders to convert a byte array into a BufferedImage as the size of the PNG image increases:
<img width="596" height="366" alt="Screenshot 2025-12-27 at 9 14 19 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/73583cb2-eda0-47a8-b818-735a1835f1e8" />
(This originally came to my attention when looking at an image in Java 1.8. There the ImageConsumer model took approx 400% longer than ImageIO. I was happy to see in recent JDKs that gap narrowed significantly, but there was still a noticeable 10% discrepancy.)
I haven't tried submitting a performance enhancement PR before; I'm not sure if this issue meets this group's threshold for being worth addressing. And if it does: I'm not sure how to structure a unit test for it.
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Commit messages:
- 8374377: Use System.arraycopy when possible
Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29004/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=29004&range=00
Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8374377
Stats: 291 lines in 2 files changed: 287 ins; 0 del; 4 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29004.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/29004/head:pull/29004
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29004
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