[poppler] [PATCH 4/5] use libjpeg for DCTStream

Jeff Muizelaar jrmuizel at nit.ca
Fri Mar 4 12:51:14 PST 2005


On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:23:02PM +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> What does this patch give us? I mean Kristian has mentioned that libjpeg has 
> obviously had more eyes looking for possible bugs and such, but what about 
> speed? Is it faster, the same or slower using libjpeg instead of DCTStream?
> 

It certainly wasn't alot faster, although I didn't look too closely.
However, having libjpeg as a bottle neck would be something I am very
comfortable with. If libjpeg isn't fast enough then there are lots of
applications that suffer, and it is better to fix libjpeg then using
xpdf specific code.

-Jeff


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