Re: [PHP-DEV] Replace libjpeg with libjpeg-turbo for PHP 8.1+ on Windows

On 09.05.2021 at 17:45, Dan Ackroyd wrote:

> On Sun, 9 May 2021 at 16:04, Christoph M. Becker <[email protected]> wro=
te:
>>
>> I suggest to replace libjpeg[1] with libjpeg-turbo[2] for future PHP
>> releases on Windows, starting with PHP 8.1.
>>
>> Thoughts?  Objections?
>
> So the ABI break would only affect people who have some C code that is
> dependent on the new version of the data structure?

Right.  And I doubt that this is even used at all, since it is not
compatible with common decoders.

> If that's the case, then it sounds like either they can compile their
> own version of PHP for Windows, or complain about it during the
> release candidate process.
>
> But switching to the faster library sounds good.

Great.  I'm going to roll out libjpeg-turbo for php-src/master builds
right away.

Christoph