Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo
On 04/24/2013 05:23 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Hi Bill and Debian Developers,
>
> while doing work on GD Library 2.1.0 it was discovered there's
> encoding incompatibility introduced by libjpeg8/9 [1]. While doing
> further research I have found that Fedora has switched to
> libjpeg-turbo[2] (for reasoning please read the referred email).
> Ubuntu (and Steam) is also using libjpeg-turbo as base jpeg library.
> SuSE has also switched to libjpeg-turbo some time ago (just had a
> quick chat with it's maintainer).
>
> Debian has already open ITP[3] #602034 for libjpeg-turbo
Just being curious... Is the -turbo called this was because it's faster?
How much faster is it then?
Thomas
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