On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:07:19AM +0300, Fathi Boudra wrote: > > What are we using to measure these improvements? What is the -turbo > > lib being used for? > > We use tjbench to measure the improvements. The browsers > (firefox/chromium) is a use case mentioned on the roadmap but I didn't > have seen any results. Tom knows more. > > >> Debian/Ubuntu P are going to move to libjpeg8 by default making > >> current package obsolete in the future. > > > > Note that when we asked Darrell about this he questioned the performance > > benefits of version 8. Mans probably knows more. At any rate, -turbo as > > an upstream is the only sane decision. > > > > Who is making the choice from the Ubuntu side -- and is there a bug open > > for this? > > Bill Allombert is libjpeg Debian maintainer. At the moment, Ubuntu is > following Debian. There isn't any bug open as the transition didn't > started yet.
I think Tom and Ricardo should probably talk to Bill about it; I see this as being a very questionable move. I'd much rather move to seeing libjpeg deprecated into a libjpeg-legacy-8b package for good and -turbo become the actual system version. -- Christian Robottom Reis, Engineering VP Brazil (GMT-3) | [+55] 16 9112 6430 | [+1] 612 216 4935 Linaro.org: Open Source Software for ARM SoCs _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
