28 Feb
2011
28 Feb
'11
4:05 p.m.
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi all,
With the libjpeg-turbo-1.1 release, it now has libjpeg-8 compatibility and is a suitable replacement for our version of libjpeg. For those that do not know about libjpeg-turbo, you can get more info at http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/ . Essentially it is a lot faster, and as a bonus from a distributions point of view its development is a lot more open.
So test the version out in [testing] and report any issues. It should be a drop in replacement so hopefully nothing will become too broken!
Any backstory here why we are making the replacement? I see Fedora has done (is doing?) so, but no real discussion happened on our list first. -Dan