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Is it sad the feature that excites me the most is 'libjpeg-turbo'?Is it sad the feature that excites me the most is 'libjpeg-turbo'?Posted Aug 24, 2010 18:58 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha by vv Parent article: Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha
For someone like me that does a ton of automated image processing, MMX/SSE-accelerated libjpeg-turbo's speed improvements will make one heck of a difference. It's typically 2-4x faster than the old IJG libjpeg code.
Now if if we can only get a FOSS OpenCL GPU compute stack..
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Is it sad the feature that excites me the most is 'libjpeg-turbo'? Posted Aug 25, 2010 3:02 UTC (Wed) by vv (guest, #69729) [Link]
You're definitely not the only one who's looking forward to the turbo-charged libjpeg... it's one area where I've noticed Windows, for example, is a hell of a lot faster. Not that that in any way answers your question, mind. ;)
Is it sad the feature that excites me the most is 'libjpeg-turbo'? Posted Aug 25, 2010 7:47 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
I wonder why libjpeg-turbo couldn't have been folded directly into libjpeg.
Is it sad the feature that excites me the most is 'libjpeg-turbo'? Posted Aug 25, 2010 10:30 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] As I understand it the libjpeg upstream maintainers are not particularly responsive. It's an old piece of software, similar in some ways to Info-ZIP, so it's understandable that upstream is more focused on stability and does development in a somewhat more closed manner than we've become accustomed to.
Is it sad the feature that excites me the most is 'libjpeg-turbo'? Posted Aug 26, 2010 1:43 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
Hmmmm, interesting thread. Sounds like there is a licensing issue as well that prevents libjpeg-turbo from being merged back. Seems there are patent issues with newer versions of libjpeg too.
I'm personally slightly annoyed at all these forks to core functionality (gzip/pigz, bzip2/pbzip2, libjpeg/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg.sf.net, libpng/firefox, glibc/eglibc, linux/android) and wish upstreams and downstreams of such core functionality would behave more responsibly in development of the software. This is the FLOSS movement, we can do better.
Is it sad the feature that excites me the most is 'libjpeg-turbo'? Posted Sep 3, 2010 17:32 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
"More focused on stability"? They've broken API and ABI twice in two years!
libjpeg *used* to be API-stable, but no longer.
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