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libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo

Main libjpeg-turbo repository observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo · homepage · C · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

88/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 66
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 94
  • age_days: 4055
  • days_rel: 64
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 8

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

4401 stars · 1172 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

libjpeg-turbo is a SIMD-accelerated JPEG image codec library that is API/ABI-compatible with libjpeg and generally 2-6x faster. It provides both the traditional libjpeg API and the simpler TurboJPEG API, plus a Java interface and colorspace extensions for 32-bit pixel buffers.

Use cases

  • compress and decompress JPEG images at high speed
  • replace libjpeg in an application for faster JPEG encoding/decoding
  • generate planar YUV images from JPEG data
  • perform lossless transforms on JPEG images
  • decode JPEGs into 32-bit RGBX/XBGR pixel buffers
  • use JPEG compression from Java

When to choose

  • you need fast, standards-compliant JPEG compression/decompression
  • you want drop-in libjpeg API compatibility with better performance
  • you need a mature, widely deployed JPEG codec across platforms

When to avoid

  • you need non-standard SmartScale format from libjpeg v8+
  • you want better compression ratios rather than speed (consider mozjpeg)
  • you need codecs for formats other than JPEG

Facets

library · maturity stable

image-processing graphics compression image-processing graphics cross-platform cross-platform windows cpp c jvm jpeg codec simd turbojpeg image-compression linux macos

10 sources

Member repositories

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libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbomain88

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