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+Background
+==========
+
+libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2,
+NEON, AltiVec) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on
+x86, x86-64, ARM, and PowerPC systems. On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is
+generally 2-6x as fast as libjpeg, all else being equal. On other types of
+systems, libjpeg-turbo can still outperform libjpeg by a significant amount, by
+virtue of its highly-optimized Huffman coding routines. In many cases, the
+performance of libjpeg-turbo rivals that of proprietary high-speed JPEG codecs.
+
+libjpeg-turbo implements both the traditional libjpeg API as well as the less
+powerful but more straightforward TurboJPEG API. libjpeg-turbo also features
+colorspace extensions that allow it to compress from/decompress to 32-bit and
+big-endian pixel buffers (RGBX, XBGR, etc.), as well as a full-featured Java
+interface.
+
+libjpeg-turbo was originally based on libjpeg/SIMD, an MMX-accelerated
+derivative of libjpeg v6b developed by Miyasaka Masaru. The TigerVNC and
+VirtualGL projects made numerous enhancements to the codec in 2009, and in
+early 2010, libjpeg-turbo spun off into an independent project, with the goal
+of making high-speed JPEG compression/decompression technology available to a
+broader range of users and developers.
+
+
+License
+=======
+
+libjpeg-turbo is covered by three compatible BSD-style open source licenses.
+Refer to [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) for a roll-up of license terms.
+
+
+Building libjpeg-turbo
+======================
+
+Refer to [BUILDING.md](BUILDING.md) for complete instructions.
+
+
+Using libjpeg-turbo
+===================
+
+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. The libjpeg API implementation in 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.)
+
+There is no significant performance advantage to either API when both are used
+to perform similar operations.
+
+Colorspace Extensions
+---------------------
+
+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](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.
+
+libjpeg v7 and v8 API/ABI Emulation
+-----------------------------------
+
+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 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
+
+#### 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**
+
+- **libjpeg: In-memory source and destination managers**
+ See notes below.
+
+- **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**
+
+
+#### Not supported
+
+NOTE: As of this writing, extensive research has been conducted into the
+usefulness of DCT scaling as a means of data reduction and SmartScale as a
+means of quality improvement. The reader is invited to peruse the research at
+<http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/SmartScale> and draw his/her own conclusions,
+but it is the general belief of our project that these features have not
+demonstrated sufficient usefulness to justify inclusion in libjpeg-turbo.
+
+- **libjpeg: DCT scaling in compressor**
+ `cinfo.scale_num` and `cinfo.scale_denom` are silently ignored.
+ There is no technical reason why DCT scaling could not be supported when
+ emulating the libjpeg v7+ API/ABI, but without the SmartScale extension (see
+ below), only scaling factors of 1/2, 8/15, 4/7, 8/13, 2/3, 8/11, 4/5, and
+ 8/9 would be available, 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 would be
+ feasible (particularly without full acceleration.) However, 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, as
+ there is no sense of whether or how it might change in the future. It is
+ our belief that SmartScale has not demonstrated sufficient usefulness as a
+ lossless format nor as a means of quality enhancement, and thus our primary
+ interest in providing this feature would be as a means of supporting
+ additional DCT scaling factors.
+
+- **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.
+
+### What About libjpeg v9?
+
+libjpeg v9 introduced yet another field to the JPEG compression structure
+(`color_transform`), thus making the ABI backward incompatible with that of
+libjpeg v8. This new field was introduced solely for the purpose of supporting
+lossless SmartScale encoding. Furthermore, there was actually no reason to
+extend the API in this manner, as the color transform could have just as easily
+been activated by way of a new JPEG colorspace constant, thus preserving
+backward ABI compatibility.
+
+Our research (see link above) has shown that lossless SmartScale does not
+generally accomplish anything that can't already be accomplished better with
+existing, standard lossless formats. Therefore, at this time it is our belief
+that there is not sufficient technical justification for software projects to
+upgrade from libjpeg v8 to libjpeg v9, and thus there is not sufficient
+echnical justification for us to emulate the libjpeg v9 ABI.
+
+In-Memory Source/Destination Managers
+-------------------------------------
+
+By default, libjpeg-turbo 1.3 and later includes the `jpeg_mem_src()` and
+`jpeg_mem_dest()` functions, even when not emulating the libjpeg v8 API/ABI.
+Previously, it was necessary to build libjpeg-turbo from source with libjpeg v8
+API/ABI emulation in order to use the in-memory source/destination managers,
+but several projects requested that those functions be included when emulating
+the libjpeg v6b API/ABI as well. This allows the use of those functions by
+programs that need them, without breaking ABI compatibility for programs that
+don't, and it allows those functions to be provided in the "official"
+libjpeg-turbo binaries.
+
+Those who are concerned about maintaining strict conformance with the libjpeg
+v6b or v7 API can pass an argument of `--without-mem-srcdst` to `configure` or
+an argument of `-DWITH_MEM_SRCDST=0` to `cmake` prior to building
+libjpeg-turbo. This will restore the pre-1.3 behavior, in which
+`jpeg_mem_src()` and `jpeg_mem_dest()` are only included when emulating the
+libjpeg v8 API/ABI.
+
+On Un*x systems, including the in-memory source/destination managers changes
+the dynamic library version from 62.0.0 to 62.1.0 if using libjpeg v6b API/ABI
+emulation and from 7.0.0 to 7.1.0 if using libjpeg v7 API/ABI emulation.
+
+Note that, on most Un*x systems, the dynamic linker will not look for a
+function in a library until that function is actually used. Thus, if a program
+is built against libjpeg-turbo 1.3+ and uses `jpeg_mem_src()` or
+`jpeg_mem_dest()`, that program will not fail if run against an older version
+of libjpeg-turbo or against libjpeg v7- until the program actually tries to
+call `jpeg_mem_src()` or `jpeg_mem_dest()`. Such is not the case on Windows.
+If a program is built against the libjpeg-turbo 1.3+ DLL and uses
+`jpeg_mem_src()` or `jpeg_mem_dest()`, then it must use the libjpeg-turbo 1.3+
+DLL at run time.
+
+Both cjpeg and djpeg have been extended to allow testing the in-memory
+source/destination manager functions. See their respective man pages for more
+details.
+
+
+Mathematical Compatibility
+==========================
+
+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 can differ for the
+following reasons:
+
+- The SSE/SSE2 floating point DCT implementation in libjpeg-turbo is ever so
+ slightly more accurate than the implementation in libjpeg v6b, but not by
+ any amount perceptible to human vision (generally in the range of 0.01 to
+ 0.08 dB gain in PNSR.)
+
+- When not using the SIMD extensions, libjpeg-turbo uses the more accurate
+ (and slightly faster) floating point IDCT algorithm introduced in libjpeg
+ v8a as opposed to the algorithm used in libjpeg v6b. It should be noted,
+ however, that this algorithm basically brings the accuracy of the floating
+ point IDCT in line with the accuracy of the slow integer IDCT. The floating
+ point DCT/IDCT algorithms are mainly a legacy feature, and they do not
+ produce significantly more accuracy than the slow integer algorithms (to put
+ numbers on this, the typical difference in PNSR between the two algorithms
+ is less than 0.10 dB, whereas changing the quality level by 1 in the upper
+ range of the quality scale is typically more like a 1.0 dB difference.)
+
+- If the floating point algorithms in libjpeg-turbo are not implemented using
+ SIMD instructions on a particular platform, then the accuracy of the
+ floating point DCT/IDCT can depend on the 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 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. In our testing, the subsampled/upsampled
+ output of libjpeg v8 is less accurate than that of libjpeg v6b for this
+ reason.
+
+- 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.
+
+
+Performance Pitfalls
+====================
+
+Restart Markers
+---------------
+
+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.
+
+Fast Integer Forward DCT at High Quality Levels
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+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.