2010/11/2 Cristian Morales Vega
Fedora 14 has been released with libjpeg-turbo (http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/). I see we have multiple packages in home repos (home:Lazy_Kent, home:felfert, home:iboss32, home:mkromer and home:prusnak)... so someone can comment about this?
Fedora sells this as a libjpeg API/ABI compatible changes that is just faster. From a quick look it seems to be API/ABI compatible with the old 6.2 version that was available for years, but 11.3 already provides the binary incompatible 8.0. What other distros do? Also, not sure if featurewise they are 100% equivalent (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639672). Finally, this probably would be mostly a x86-64 improvement? Since we target i586 for x86-32, that doesn't provides MMX/SSE support, the speed improvement seems to be limited to a "25%" there.
Not that I ever look at Linux Standard Base... but LSB 4.0 says "libjpeg.so.62" (http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_4.0.0/LSB-Desktop-generic/LSB-Desktop-...). No idea about the future plans... I would argue for continuing with IJG's libjpeg only for the curiosity of knowing what LSB does when they find RedHat and SLE have binary incompatible libjpegs ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org