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 Maintainer: The libjpeg-turbo Project [http://libjpeg-turbo.VirtualGL.org]
-Description: A toolkit for displaying OpenGL applications to thin clients
- libjpeg-turbo is a high-speed version of libjpeg for x86 and x86-64 processors
- which uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, etc.) to accelerate baseline JPEG
- compression and decompression.  libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-4x as fast
+Description: A SIMD-accelerated JPEG codec which provides both the libjpeg and TurboJPEG APIs
+ libjpeg-turbo is a derivative of libjpeg which uses SIMD instructions (MMX,
+ SSE2, etc.) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86
+ and x86-64 systems.  On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-4x as fast
  as the unmodified version of libjpeg, all else being equal.  libjpeg-turbo
- also includes a wrapper library for the TurboJPEG API used by VirtualGL and
- TurboVNC.
+ also includes a wrapper library which implements the TurboJPEG API used by
+ VirtualGL and TurboVNC.
  .
  libjpeg-turbo was originally based on libjpeg/SIMD by Miyasaka Masaru, but
- the TigerVNC and VirtualGL projects made numerous enhancements to the codec,
- including improved support for Mac OS X, 64-bit support, support for 32-bit
- and big endian pixel formats, accelerated Huffman encoding/decoding, and
- various bug fixes.  The goal was to produce a fully open source codec that
- could replace the partially closed source TurboJPEG/IPP codec used by
- VirtualGL and TurboVNC.  libjpeg-turbo generally performs in the range of
- 80-120% of TurboJPEG/IPP.  It is faster in some areas but slower in others.
+ the TigerVNC and VirtualGL projects made numerous enhancements to the codec
+ in 2009, including improved support for Mac OS X, 64-bit support, support
+ for 32-bit and big endian pixel formats (RGBX, XBGR, etc.), accelerated
+ Huffman encoding/decoding, and various bug fixes.  The goal was to produce a
+ fully open source codec that could replace the partially closed source
+ TurboJPEG/IPP codec used by VirtualGL and TurboVNC.  libjpeg-turbo generally
+ performs in the range of 80-120% of TurboJPEG/IPP.  It is faster in some
+ areas but slower in others.
+ .
+ In early 2010, libjpeg-turbo spun off into its own independent project, with
+ the goal of making high-speed JPEG compression/decompression technology
+ available to a broader range of users and developers.