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The libjpeg-turbo project “uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, and ARM systems”.
What sort of share of the Android device space supports these instructions and hence would get a speed benefit from using this library?
(I will be decompressing jpegs in native code accessed via NDK.)
The vast majority of Android devices in the market use some flavor of ARM CPU. High end phones (e.g. HTC Sensation) tend to use ARM CPUs which support NEON (Qualcomm Snapdragon, OMAP4, Samsung Exynos, Tegra3). Older/less capable phones usually have some ARMv6 chipset such as the Qualcomm MSM72xx series. Some good examples are the Google G1 and the original Motorola Droid.
Android tablets are a slightly different story. A large percentage of existing tablet devices are based on the nVidia Tegra2 chipset which does not include NEON support. Newer tablets based on Tegra3 (Asus Transformer Prime) do include support for NEON. A few rare tablets are based on Qualcomm’s SOC (e.g. HTC Flyer) and also support NEON. There are also a few low cost tablets based on MIPS and even some with x86 chips. Then there is the relatively new category of Google-TV devices. For the past year these have been mainly x86, but the latest generation coming soon will have many which use ARM CPUs.