Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: icecat: Use libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled libjpeg.

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:28:45PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:02:35PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> >>> Leo,
> >>> 
> >>> On 27/11/16 21:56, Leo Famulari wrote:
> >>> > Will this work on nachines that don't support SSE? My understanding is
> >>> > that we don't wish to require it.
> >>> 
> >>> Why wouldn't it?
> >>> 
> >>> I don't often use Icecat, but when I do... I don't see why it would
> >>> require SSE by default. ;-) And it's not like we ever patched it to use
> >>> IJG's libjpeg to begin with.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure, but the comment seems to indicate that we don't want to
> >> use it:
> >>
> >> ;; According to
> >> ;; http://sourceforge.net/projects/libjpeg-turbo/ ,
> >> ;; "libjpeg-turbo is a derivative of libjpeg that
> >> ;; uses MMX, SSE, SSE2, and NEON SIMD instructions
> >> ;; to accelerate baseline JPEG compression/
> >> ;; decompression", so we had better not use it
> >
> > SSE is pentium III, and SSE2 was introduced in Pentium IV. MMX is even
> > older. Are we really committed to supporting 15+ year old hardware?
> 
> Digging a bit further, SSE2 is actually part of the AMD64
> specification[0]. Perhaps we could make it conditional on architecture?
> 
> 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2#CPU_support

Sure, if it requires SSE2 to run, and we keep the status quo regarding
i686, I don't see why not.

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