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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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