On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> 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.