libjpeg for F14

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue May 25 15:52:13 UTC 2010


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:23:45AM -0400, Adam Goode wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 10:09 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Why couldn't we just replace libjpeg with the libjpeg-turbo upstream?
> > (For the primary architectures anyway).
> > 
> 
> I think this is a great idea, libjpeg is the bottleneck for a lot of my
> code.
> 
> One issue: are there C fallbacks for all the arch-specific code? It
> would be great if secondary architectures could just use libjpeg-turbo
> as well.

I had a quick scan of the build system, and it seems to me that on
non-x86 architectures it falls back to using C.  So it could be used
as a drop-in replacement for libjpeg.  Note that I've not tried
compiling it on a secondary arch.

Rich.

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