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Re: [trinity-devel] Any reason NOT to use libjpeg-turbo instead of libjpeg?

From: Kristopher John Gamrat <chaotickjg@...>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:44:23 -0500
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 04:33:12 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 02/21/2012 02:49 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >>     Is there any reason not to use libjpeg-turbo instead of libjpeg when
> >> building tde? Why not benefit from the acceleration?
> >>
> >> --
> >> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
> >
> > I would recommend using it actually.  It makes quite a difference in the
> > VNC applications; I can watch OTA HD TV at several FPS over VNC with it (I
> > know, not really watchable, but still impressive given the overall
> > inefficiency of the VNC protocol).
> >
> > The only reason I haven't compiled into Ubuntu<  Oneiric is that it is
> > only available as a package in Oneiric and up.

As long as it doesn't introduce any issues, and as long as it can coexist with normal libjpeg, why not compile a version for TDE just for the distros/versions that don't already have it?

-- 
Kris Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
http://www.arklinux.org/

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