Squoosh vs Sharp: 483ms vs 291ms Encode
@jsquash/jpeg 1.6.0 (Squoosh mozjpeg WASM) vs sharp 0.35.5 mozjpeg on one 1920×1080 JPEG → q80 encode from pre-decoded RGBA. Warm medians (7 rounds after 1 warm-up): Squoosh WASM 483 ms / 675,247 B vs sharp mozjpeg 291 ms / 546,546 B (~1.7×). Context: sharp decode+encode mozjpeg 303 ms; sharp libvips jpeg from raw 23 ms / 675,714 B. Fixture /workspace/bench-squoosh-sharp/. @squoosh/lib 0.5.3 fails on Node 22.
6 Oct 20264 min read
