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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: A tiny news item for migrating to libjpeg-turbo
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:25:38
Message-Id: 4F953B8D.3050406@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: A tiny news item for migrating to libjpeg-turbo by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 04/23/2012 01:43 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 >
4 >> I don't really think this is necessary, but some people seem to.
5 >> Looks fine?
6 >
7 >> Title: The default JPEG implementation is libjpeg-turbo
8 >
9 > Too long. GLEP 42 allows a maximum of 44 characters only.
10 >
11 >> Author: Samuli Suominen<ssuominen@g.o>
12 >> Content-Type: text/plain
13 >> Posted: 2012-04-23
14 >> Revision: 1
15 >> News-Item-Format: 1.0
16 >> Display-If-Installed: =media-libs/jpeg-8*
17 >
18 >> libjpeg-turbo is a derivative of libjpeg that uses MMX, SSE, SSE2, and NEON
19 >> SIMD instructions to accelerate baseline JPEG compression/decompression by
20 >> about 2-4x on x86, x86-64, and ARM platforms. It is based on libjpeg/SIMD but
21 >> has numerous enhancements.
22 >
23 > I'd suggest to use our standard names for these architectures, i.e. x86,
24 > amd64, and arm.
25 >
26 >> All users are recommended to migrate:
27 >
28 >> # emerge -C media-libs/jpeg:0
29 >> # emerge -1 media-libs/libjpeg-turbo
30 >
31 >> > From here on out media-libs/jpeg:0 is only used as a fallback and at the time
32 >> of writing this news item, libjpeg-turbo has no known bugs that would require
33 >> using it.
34 >
35 > Maybe avoid the word "From" at the beginning of the line. eselect news
36 > will escape it properly, but it looks somewhat ugly.
37 >
38 > And please wrap the body text at 72 chars (GLEP 42 says so).
39
40 Thanks Ulrich. See attachment as draft #2.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: A tiny news item for migrating to libjpeg-turbo Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: A tiny news item for migrating to libjpeg-turbo Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>