# Texture Management in Defold

**URL:** <https://forum.defold.com/t/texture-management-in-defold/8921>\
**Category:** The Defoldmine\
**Created:** [June 3, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/texture-management-in-defold/8921 "2017-06-03T15:36:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/texture-management-in-defold/8921/9 "2017-07-05T08:20:31Z")

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WebP takes a fair bit longer to compress compared to the default (ZLib) compression so it’s nothing we light-heartedly changed to be the new default. However, we are going to look into how we will handle this in the future.

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