Bug 327565

Summary:	libjpeg replacement - libjpeg-turbo
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Benjamin Schindler <beschindler>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Benjamin Schindler 2010-07-09 07:20:01 UTC

There is an interesting project going forward here: 

http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/ - it's a API/ABI compatible libjpeg implementation making use of SSE/MMX. It claims to be twice as fast using SSE and at least 25% on other platforms. According to this page, Fedora will switch to this library, so it might make sense to provide this as an alternative to libjpeg (may be by using a virtual?)

Also, what's very important is that the project seems to be more open than original libjpeg. That can only be a plus to gentoo

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-09 07:32:46 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 327487 ***