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diff --git a/src/3rdparty/libjpeg/src/README.md b/src/3rdparty/libjpeg/src/README.md index c61b855644..e7ff743a47 100644 --- a/src/3rdparty/libjpeg/src/README.md +++ b/src/3rdparty/libjpeg/src/README.md @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ Background ========== -libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, -AVX2, NEON, AltiVec) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression -on x86, x86-64, ARM, and PowerPC systems, as well as progressive JPEG -compression on x86 and x86-64 systems. On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is -generally 2-6x as fast as libjpeg, all else being equal. On other types of -systems, libjpeg-turbo can still outperform libjpeg by a significant amount, by -virtue of its highly-optimized Huffman coding routines. In many cases, the -performance of libjpeg-turbo rivals that of proprietary high-speed JPEG codecs. +libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions to accelerate +baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, ARM, PowerPC, and +MIPS systems, as well as progressive JPEG compression on x86 and x86-64 +systems. On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-6x as fast as libjpeg, +all else being equal. On other types of systems, libjpeg-turbo can still +outperform libjpeg by a significant amount, by virtue of its highly-optimized +Huffman coding routines. In many cases, the performance of libjpeg-turbo +rivals that of proprietary high-speed JPEG codecs. libjpeg-turbo implements both the traditional libjpeg API as well as the less powerful but more straightforward TurboJPEG API. libjpeg-turbo also features @@ -145,14 +145,14 @@ supported and which aren't. #### Fully supported -- **libjpeg: IDCT scaling extensions in decompressor**<br> +- **libjpeg API: IDCT scaling extensions in decompressor**<br> libjpeg-turbo supports IDCT scaling with scaling factors of 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 7/8, 9/8, 5/4, 11/8, 3/2, 13/8, 7/4, 15/8, and 2/1 (only 1/4 and 1/2 are SIMD-accelerated.) -- **libjpeg: Arithmetic coding** +- **libjpeg API: Arithmetic coding** -- **libjpeg: In-memory source and destination managers**<br> +- **libjpeg API: In-memory source and destination managers**<br> See notes below. - **cjpeg: Separate quality settings for luminance and chrominance**<br> @@ -184,14 +184,14 @@ means of quality improvement. The reader is invited to peruse the research at but it is the general belief of our project that these features have not demonstrated sufficient usefulness to justify inclusion in libjpeg-turbo. -- **libjpeg: DCT scaling in compressor**<br> +- **libjpeg API: DCT scaling in compressor**<br> `cinfo.scale_num` and `cinfo.scale_denom` are silently ignored. There is no technical reason why DCT scaling could not be supported when emulating the libjpeg v7+ API/ABI, but without the SmartScale extension (see below), only scaling factors of 1/2, 8/15, 4/7, 8/13, 2/3, 8/11, 4/5, and 8/9 would be available, which is of limited usefulness. -- **libjpeg: SmartScale**<br> +- **libjpeg API: SmartScale**<br> `cinfo.block_size` is silently ignored. SmartScale is an extension to the JPEG format that allows for DCT block sizes other than 8x8. Providing support for this new format would be @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ demonstrated sufficient usefulness to justify inclusion in libjpeg-turbo. interest in providing this feature would be as a means of supporting additional DCT scaling factors. -- **libjpeg: Fancy downsampling in compressor**<br> +- **libjpeg API: Fancy downsampling in compressor**<br> `cinfo.do_fancy_downsampling` is silently ignored. This requires the DCT scaling feature, which is not supported. @@ -252,8 +252,8 @@ building libjpeg-turbo. This will restore the pre-1.3 behavior, in which libjpeg v8 API/ABI. On Un*x systems, including the in-memory source/destination managers changes -the dynamic library version from 62.1.0 to 62.2.0 if using libjpeg v6b API/ABI -emulation and from 7.1.0 to 7.2.0 if using libjpeg v7 API/ABI emulation. +the dynamic library version from 62.2.0 to 62.3.0 if using libjpeg v6b API/ABI +emulation and from 7.2.0 to 7.3.0 if using libjpeg v7 API/ABI emulation. Note that, on most Un*x systems, the dynamic linker will not look for a function in a library until that function is actually used. Thus, if a program @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ in a way that makes the rest of the libjpeg infrastructure happy, so it is necessary to use the slow Huffman decoder when decompressing a JPEG image that has restart markers. This can cause the decompression performance to drop by as much as 20%, but the performance will still be much greater than that of -libjpeg. Many consumer packages, such as PhotoShop, use restart markers when +libjpeg. Many consumer packages, such as Photoshop, use restart markers when generating JPEG images, so images generated by those programs will experience this issue. |