Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

[Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Bill Allombert
<Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:23:04AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> Hi Bill and Debian Developers,
>>
>> My proposal is:
>> A. Add libjpeg-turbo to Debian archive (that's easy)
>> B. Add required provides/alternatives for libjpeg62-dev and
>> libjpeg8-dev (where API/ABI match)
>> C. Decide which package should provide default libjpeg-dev library
>>
>> 1. https://bitbucket.org/libgd/gd-libgd/issue/50/tests-jpeg-jpeg_readc-fails-on-debian
>> 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-January/176299.html
>> 3. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602034
>
> As IJG libjpeg maintainer, my plan is to move to libjpeg9 which has more feature.
>

>From a user's prospective, I don't think adding bunches of not widely
used features is that useful (I mean it's useful but not that
important), but speed does matter a lot, especially on slower hardware
like ARM-boards.



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Regards,
Aron Xu