[RFC] libjpeg-turbo

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

Chuck (and other affected parties),

The libjpeg-turbo project provides SIMD acceleration while remaining API 
and ABI compatible with IJG libjpeg 6b/7/8 (based on configure flags). 
I have been using this libjpeg8 locally instead of the IJG one from the 
distro for some time, and have seen no ABI incompatibilities.

Fedora switched from IJG libjpeg to libjpeg-turbo in F14, and did the 
same in their MinGW toolchain for F16 (when they switched from mingw.org 
to mingw-w64).  Perhaps we should do the same?

http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/libjpeg-turbo

--
Yaakov