On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:09:03PM +0300, Fathi Boudra wrote:
> libjpeg-turbo is available in Oneiric, using v62 emulation. The performance
> improvements aren't significant at the moment.

What are we using to measure these improvements? What is the -turbo
lib being used for?

> 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?

> There's definitely some work coming to my mind:
> - package libjpeg-turbo with v8 compatibility mode enabled
> - test v8 emulation mode (it seems there's some functions marked as stubs,
>   need to be confirmed)
> - run tjbench as part of LAVA tests to get comparisons (plain libjpeg vs ljt)
> - benchmark on Android platform

Agreed. And you could tack onto this optimizing any other routines that
are not currently NEON optimized and worth it.

> What's the MM WG plan for ljt? Is there some blueprints in MM WG backlog for
> the items I mentioned?

Same question here!
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