On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 05:55:39PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: >> The libjpeg version(6b) in Fedora is quite old(27-Mar-1998). >> And newer versions were released on: >> >> Version 7 27-Jun-2009 >> Version 8 10-Jan-2010 >> Version 8a 28-Feb-2010 >> Version 8b 16-May-2010 >> <http://www.ijg.org/> > > libjpeg has an odd upstream. We needed some build fixes to be > included for the Windows cross-compiler, but found the current > upstream to be unresponsive (although at least they're making releases > now ...) > > There's also this project, to add hardware acceleration (SSE and so > on) to libjpeg: > > http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/ > > If we're going to switch, maybe this is a good choice. If it works as a drop in replacement it is an obvious choice, jpeg de/compression is a rather common task a 2-4 speedup (as claimed on the page) would be rather nice. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
