jpeg-turbo
brew install jpeg-turbo
v3.1.4.1
IJG AND Zlib AND BSD-3-Clause
High-performance JPEG codec library (C) with 2-4× faster compression/decompression than libjpeg.
Why you might care
Drop-in replacement for libjpeg in image processing pipelines, build chains, and applications needing fast JPEG encoding/decoding. Uses SIMD acceleration (MMX, SSE2, AVX2, NEON) to significantly outpace standard libjpeg. Widely depended on by image libraries, web servers, and media software; mostly used as a build/runtime dependency rather than directly.
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Build dependencies
Links
- https://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/
- Brew formula source: Formula/j/jpeg-turbo.rb
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