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Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpe
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg. |
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Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:15:01 +0100 |
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Andreas, Leo,
Thanks for the feedback!
On 27/11/16 22:41, Leo Famulari wrote:
> I'm not sure, but the comment seems to indicate that we don't want to
> use it:
>
> ;; According to
> ;; http://sourceforge.net/projects/libjpeg-turbo/ ,
> ;; "libjpeg-turbo is a derivative of libjpeg that
> ;; uses MMX, SSE, SSE2, and NEON SIMD instructions
> ;; to accelerate baseline JPEG compression/
> ;; decompression", so we had better not use it
There seems to be some misunderstanding here. Sorry if it wasn't clear:
this (libjpeg-turbo) was *already* bundled and used by icecat, as the
‘media/libjpeg’ (sic) that this patch removes. You'll find the same SIMD
code there. For the quote above is missing:
> ;; Fails with "libjpeg-turbo JCS_EXTENSIONS required".
Translation: icecat wouldn't build with Guix's ‘libjpeg’ even if we'd
want that.
And we don't. This isn't some dodgy go-faster fork of IJG's ‘real’
libjpeg. It's intended as a sane alternative to the IJG library, albeit
one that doesn't implement every recent extension. It detects CPU
features at runtime — although they're the status quo now, as Andreas
notes — and falls back to other algorithms that might still be faster.
Dang it. I thought I wrote good (description)s. :-(
Kind regards,
T G-R-turbo
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- [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add libjpeg-turbo., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2016/11/27
- [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2016/11/27
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Leo Famulari, 2016/11/27
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2016/11/27
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Leo Famulari, 2016/11/27
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Marius Bakke, 2016/11/27
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Marius Bakke, 2016/11/27
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Leo Famulari, 2016/11/27
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Leo Famulari, 2016/11/27
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg.,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <=
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2016/11/27
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Leo Famulari, 2016/11/27
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg., Leo Famulari, 2016/11/27
Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add libjpeg-turbo., Leo Famulari, 2016/11/27