On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:05:52PM +0300, Fathi Boudra wrote: > Hi Bill, > > For information, we have an ITP running: http://bugs.debian.org/612341 > > > libjpeg-turbo only support the old libjpeg62 interface and not the new > > libjpeg8 one, > > which support more image format, and provide higher image quality. > > libjpeg-turbo supports v7 or v8 emulation.
I do not think it is perfect, in the sens that programs that works under libjpeg8 can fail to work under libjpeg-turbo. > > Unfortunately the libjpeg-turbo improvements carry a different license than > > the IJG libjpeg > > library, so it is unlikely they get merged. > > Even if it's unlikely ljt and IJG libjpeg get merged, it makes sense > to provide ljt as an alternative It is unlikely to be merged since libjpeg-turbo use a different license than libjpeg. > to people that want to benefit from the performance gain (e.g. ARM > architecture) which is the goal of the ITP. Does libjpeg-turbo actually improve performance on ARM ? Last time I check, accelerated support were only available for x86/x86-64. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
