README-turbo.txt

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**     Background
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libjpeg-turbo is a derivative of libjpeg that uses SIMD instructions (MMX,
SSE2, NEON) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86,
x86-64, and ARM systems.  On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-4x as
fast as the unmodified version of libjpeg, all else being equal.

libjpeg-turbo was originally based on libjpeg/SIMD by Miyasaka Masaru, but
the TigerVNC and VirtualGL projects made numerous enhancements to the codec in
2009, including improved support for Mac OS X, 64-bit support, support for
32-bit and big-endian pixel formats (RGBX, XBGR, etc.), accelerated Huffman
encoding/decoding, and various bug fixes.  The goal was to produce a fully
open-source codec whose performance rivaled that of popular closed-source
codecs available at the time.

In early 2010, libjpeg-turbo spun off into its own independent project, with
the goal of making high-speed JPEG compression/decompression technology
available to a broader range of users and developers.


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**     License
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Most of libjpeg-turbo inherits the non-restrictive, BSD-style license used by
libjpeg (see README.)  The TurboJPEG/OSS wrapper (both C and Java versions) and
associated test programs bear a similar license, which is reproduced below:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
  and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- Neither the name of the libjpeg-turbo Project nor the names of its
  contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
  software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS",
AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.


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**     Using libjpeg-turbo
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libjpeg-turbo includes two APIs that can be used to compress and decompress
JPEG images:

  TurboJPEG API:  This API provides an easy-to-use interface for compressing
  and decompressing JPEG images in memory.  It also provides some functionality
  that would not be straightforward to achieve using the underlying libjpeg
  API, such as generating planar YUV images and performing multiple
  simultaneous lossless transforms on an image.  The Java interface for
  libjpeg-turbo is written on top of the TurboJPEG API.

  libjpeg API:  This is the de facto industry-standard API for compressing and
  decompressing JPEG images.  It is more difficult to use than the TurboJPEG
  API but also more powerful.  libjpeg-turbo is both API/ABI-compatible and
  mathematically compatible with libjpeg v6b.  It can also optionally be
  configured to be API/ABI-compatible with libjpeg v7 and v8 (see below.)

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Installation Directory
======================

This document assumes that libjpeg-turbo will be installed in the default
directory (/opt/libjpeg-turbo on Un*x and Mac systems and
c:\libjpeg-turbo[-gcc][64] on Windows systems.  If your installation of
libjpeg-turbo resides in a different directory, then adjust the instructions
accordingly.

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Replacing libjpeg at Run Time
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Un*x
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If a Un*x application is dynamically linked with libjpeg, then you can replace
libjpeg with libjpeg-turbo at run time by manipulating LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
For instance:

  [Using libjpeg]
  > time cjpeg <vgl_5674_0098.ppm >vgl_5674_0098.jpg
  real  0m0.392s
  user  0m0.074s
  sys   0m0.020s

  [Using libjpeg-turbo]
  > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/libjpeg-turbo/{lib}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  > time cjpeg <vgl_5674_0098.ppm >vgl_5674_0098.jpg
  real  0m0.109s
  user  0m0.029s
  sys   0m0.010s

({lib} = lib32 or lib64, depending on whether you wish to use the 32-bit or the
64-bit version of libjpeg-turbo.)

System administrators can also replace the libjpeg symlinks in /usr/lib* with
links to the libjpeg-turbo dynamic library located in /opt/libjpeg-turbo/{lib}.
This will effectively accelerate every application that uses the libjpeg
dynamic library on the system.

Windows
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If a Windows application is dynamically linked with libjpeg, then you can
replace libjpeg with libjpeg-turbo at run time by backing up the application's
copy of jpeg62.dll, jpeg7.dll, or jpeg8.dll (assuming the application has its
own local copy of this library) and copying the corresponding DLL from
libjpeg-turbo into the application's install directory.  The official
libjpeg-turbo binary packages only provide jpeg62.dll.  If the application uses
jpeg7.dll or jpeg8.dll instead, then it will be necessary to build
libjpeg-turbo from source (see "libjpeg v7 and v8 API/ABI Emulation" below.)

The following information is specific to the official libjpeg-turbo binary
packages for Visual C++:

-- jpeg62.dll requires the Visual C++ 2008 C run-time DLL (msvcr90.dll).
msvcr90.dll ships with more recent versions of Windows, but users of older
Windows releases can obtain it from the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable
Package, which is available as a free download from Microsoft's web site.

-- Features of the libjpeg API that require passing a C run-time structure,
such as a file handle, from an application to the library will probably not
work with jpeg62.dll, unless the application is also built to use the Visual
C++ 2008 C run-time DLL.  In particular, this affects jpeg_stdio_dest() and
jpeg_stdio_src().

Mac
---

Mac applications typically embed their own copies of the libjpeg dylib inside
the (hidden) application bundle, so it is not possible to globally replace
libjpeg on OS X systems.  Replacing the application's version of the libjpeg
dylib would generally involve copying libjpeg.*.dylib from libjpeg-turbo into
the appropriate place in the application bundle and using install_name_tool to
repoint the libjpeg-turbo dylib to its new directory.  This requires an
advanced knowledge of OS X and would not survive an upgrade or a re-install of
the application.  Thus, it is not recommended for most users.

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Using libjpeg-turbo in Your Own Programs
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For the most part, libjpeg-turbo should work identically to libjpeg, so in
most cases, an application can be built against libjpeg and then run against
libjpeg-turbo.  On Un*x systems and Cygwin, you can build against libjpeg-turbo
instead of libjpeg by setting

  CPATH=/opt/libjpeg-turbo/include
  and
  LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/libjpeg-turbo/{lib}

({lib} = lib32 or lib64, depending on whether you are building a 32-bit or a
64-bit application.)

If using MinGW, then set

  CPATH=/c/libjpeg-turbo-gcc[64]/include
  and
  LIBRARY_PATH=/c/libjpeg-turbo-gcc[64]/lib

Building against libjpeg-turbo is useful, for instance, if you want to build an
application that leverages the libjpeg-turbo colorspace extensions (see below.)
On Un*x systems, you would still need to manipulate LD_LIBRARY_PATH or create
appropriate symlinks to use libjpeg-turbo at run time.  On such systems, you
can pass -R /opt/libjpeg-turbo/{lib} to the linker to force the use of
libjpeg-turbo at run time rather than libjpeg (also useful if you want to
leverage the colorspace extensions), or you can link against the libjpeg-turbo
static library.

To force a Un*x or MinGW application to link against the static version of
libjpeg-turbo, you can use the following linker options:

  -Wl,-Bstatic -ljpeg -Wl,-Bdynamic

On OS X, simply add /opt/libjpeg-turbo/lib/libjpeg.a to the linker command
line.

To build Visual C++ applications using libjpeg-turbo, add
c:\libjpeg-turbo[64]\include to the system or user INCLUDE environment
variable and c:\libjpeg-turbo[64]\lib to the system or user LIB environment
variable, and then link against either jpeg.lib (to use the DLL version of
libjpeg-turbo) or jpeg-static.lib (to use the static version of libjpeg-turbo.)

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Colorspace Extensions
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libjpeg-turbo includes extensions that allow JPEG images to be compressed
directly from (and decompressed directly to) buffers that use BGR, BGRX,
RGBX, XBGR, and XRGB pixel ordering.  This is implemented with ten new
colorspace constants:

  JCS_EXT_RGB   /* red/green/blue */
  JCS_EXT_RGBX  /* red/green/blue/x */
  JCS_EXT_BGR   /* blue/green/red */
  JCS_EXT_BGRX  /* blue/green/red/x */
  JCS_EXT_XBGR  /* x/blue/green/red */
  JCS_EXT_XRGB  /* x/red/green/blue */
  JCS_EXT_RGBA  /* red/green/blue/alpha */
  JCS_EXT_BGRA  /* blue/green/red/alpha */
  JCS_EXT_ABGR  /* alpha/blue/green/red */
  JCS_EXT_ARGB  /* alpha/red/green/blue */

Setting cinfo.in_color_space (compression) or cinfo.out_color_space
(decompression) to one of these values will cause libjpeg-turbo to read the
red, green, and blue values from (or write them to) the appropriate position in
the pixel when compressing from/decompressing to an RGB buffer.

Your application can check for the existence of these extensions at compile
time with:

  #ifdef JCS_EXTENSIONS

At run time, attempting to use these extensions with a libjpeg implementation
that does not support them will result in a "Bogus input colorspace" error.
Applications can trap this error in order to test whether run-time support is
available for the colorspace extensions.

When using the RGBX, BGRX, XBGR, and XRGB colorspaces during decompression, the
X byte is undefined, and in order to ensure the best performance, libjpeg-turbo
can set that byte to whatever value it wishes.  If an application expects the X
byte to be used as an alpha channel, then it should specify JCS_EXT_RGBA,
JCS_EXT_BGRA, JCS_EXT_ABGR, or JCS_EXT_ARGB.  When these colorspace constants
are used, the X byte is guaranteed to be 0xFF, which is interpreted as opaque.

Your application can check for the existence of the alpha channel colorspace
extensions at compile time with:

  #ifdef JCS_ALPHA_EXTENSIONS

jcstest.c, located in the libjpeg-turbo source tree, demonstrates how to check
for the existence of the colorspace extensions at compile time and run time.

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libjpeg v7 and v8 API/ABI Emulation
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With libjpeg v7 and v8, new features were added that necessitated extending the
compression and decompression structures.  Unfortunately, due to the exposed
nature of those structures, extending them also necessitated breaking backward
ABI compatibility with previous libjpeg releases.  Thus, programs that were
built to use libjpeg v7 or v8 did not work with libjpeg-turbo, since it is
based on the libjpeg v6b code base.  Although libjpeg v7 and v8 are still not
as widely used as v6b, enough programs (including a few Linux distros) made
the switch that there was a demand to emulate the libjpeg v7 and v8 ABIs
in libjpeg-turbo.  It should be noted, however, that this feature was added
primarily so that applications that had already been compiled to use libjpeg
v7+ could take advantage of accelerated baseline JPEG encoding/decoding
without recompiling.  libjpeg-turbo does not claim to support all of the
libjpeg v7+ features, nor to produce identical output to libjpeg v7+ in all
cases (see below.)

By passing an argument of --with-jpeg7 or --with-jpeg8 to configure, or an
argument of -DWITH_JPEG7=1 or -DWITH_JPEG8=1 to cmake, you can build a version
of libjpeg-turbo that emulates the libjpeg v7 or v8 ABI, so that programs
that are built against libjpeg v7 or v8 can be run with libjpeg-turbo.  The
following section describes which libjpeg v7+ features are supported and which
aren't.

Support for libjpeg v7 and v8 Features:
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Fully supported:

-- libjpeg: IDCT scaling extensions in decompressor
   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

-- cjpeg: Separate quality settings for luminance and chrominance
   Note that the libpjeg v7+ API was extended to accommodate this feature only
   for convenience purposes.  It has always been possible to implement this
   feature with libjpeg v6b (see rdswitch.c for an example.)

-- cjpeg: 32-bit BMP support

-- cjpeg: -rgb option

-- jpegtran: lossless cropping

-- jpegtran: -perfect option

-- jpegtran: forcing width/height when performing lossless crop

-- rdjpgcom: -raw option

-- rdjpgcom: locale awareness


Fully supported when using libjpeg v7/v8 emulation:

-- libjpeg: In-memory source and destination managers


Not supported:

-- libjpeg: DCT scaling in compressor
   cinfo.scale_num and cinfo.scale_denom are silently ignored.
   There is no technical reason why DCT scaling cannot be supported, but
   without the SmartScale extension (see below), it would only be able to
   down-scale using ratios of 1/2, 8/15, 4/7, 8/13, 2/3, 8/11, 4/5, and 8/9,
   which is of limited usefulness.

-- libjpeg: SmartScale
   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 is feasible
   (particularly without full acceleration), but until/unless the format
   becomes either an official industry standard or, at minimum, an accepted
   solution in the community, we are hesitant to implement it.

-- libjpeg: Fancy downsampling in compressor
   cinfo.do_fancy_downsampling is silently ignored.
   This requires the DCT scaling feature, which is not supported.

-- jpegtran: Scaling
   This requires both the DCT scaling and SmartScale features, which are not
   supported.

-- Lossless RGB JPEG files
   This requires the SmartScale feature, which is not supported.


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**     Mathematical Compatibility
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For the most part, libjpeg-turbo should produce identical output to libjpeg
v6b.  The one exception to this is when using the floating point DCT/IDCT, in
which case the outputs of libjpeg v6b and libjpeg-turbo are not guaranteed to
be identical (the accuracy of the floating point DCT/IDCT is constant when
using libjpeg-turbo's SIMD extensions, but otherwise, it can depend heavily on
the compiler and compiler settings.)

While libjpeg-turbo does emulate the libjpeg v8 API/ABI, under the hood, it is
still using the same algorithms as libjpeg v6b, so there are several specific
cases in which libjpeg-turbo cannot be expected to produce the same output as
libjpeg v8:

-- When decompressing using scaling factors of 1/2 and 1/4, because libjpeg v8
   implements those scaling algorithms a bit differently than libjpeg v6b does,
   and libjpeg-turbo's SIMD extensions are based on the libjpeg v6b behavior.

-- When using chrominance subsampling, because libjpeg v8 implements this
   with its DCT/IDCT scaling algorithms rather than with a separate
   downsampling/upsampling algorithm.

-- When using the floating point IDCT, for the reasons stated above and also
   because the floating point IDCT algorithm was modified in libjpeg v8a to
   improve accuracy.

-- When decompressing using a scaling factor > 1 and merged (AKA "non-fancy" or
   "non-smooth") chrominance upsampling, because libjpeg v8 does not support
   merged upsampling with scaling factors > 1.


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**     Performance Pitfalls
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Restart Markers
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The optimized Huffman decoder in libjpeg-turbo does not handle restart markers
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
generating JPEG images, so images generated by those programs will experience
this issue.

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Fast Integer Forward DCT at High Quality Levels
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The algorithm used by the SIMD-accelerated quantization function cannot produce
correct results whenever the fast integer forward DCT is used along with a JPEG
quality of 98-100.  Thus, libjpeg-turbo must use the non-SIMD quantization
function in those cases.  This causes performance to drop by as much as 40%.
It is therefore strongly advised that you use the slow integer forward DCT
whenever encoding images with a JPEG quality of 98 or higher.