Business Profile
libjpeg-turbo provides a high-speed JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, ARM, and PowerPC systems, delivering 2-6x speedups over libjpeg on supported architectures.
{"Software developers needing high-performance JPEG encoding/decoding","Organizations and developers contributing to or deploying open source JPEG tooling","Potential project sponsors and contributors focused on open source sponsorship"}
Cross-architecture SIMD-accelerated JPEG processing with compatibility for both the traditional libjpeg API and the TurboJPEG API, plus colorspace extensions, a Java interface, and a vendor-neutral open-source sponsorship model.
Not explicitly stated for value realization; development ongoing. Notable items: 2023-11-29: Official releases moved to GitHub and package repositories; 2019-02-04: Became official ISO/ITU-T reference implementation.
libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression, supports progressive JPEG, offers both libjpeg and TurboJPEG APIs, provides colorspace extensions and a Java interface, and is an ISO/IEC and ITU-T reference implementation.
Developers and organizations requiring high-performance JPEG processing, and open-source sponsors seeking to support or customize a fast, reputable JPEG implementation.
Fast, cross-architecture JPEG codec with API compatibility and vendor-neutral open-source sponsorship, providing enterprise-quality performance without vendor lock-in.
Supported platforms include x86, x86-64, ARM, and PowerPC. Uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, AVX2, Neon, AltiVec). Available as official binaries and source tarballs; packages available via YUM and APT repositories.
Open-source licensing (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5). Sponsorship/donations are encouraged for feature funding and extended support; extended support releases available to project sponsors via a private repository.
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