Halide VS png-decoder

Compare Halide vs png-decoder and see what are their differences.

Halide

a language for fast, portable data-parallel computation (by halide)

png-decoder

A pure-Rust, no_std compatible PNG decoder (by bschwind)
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Halide png-decoder
43 4
5,683 40
1.1% -
9.5 0.0
2 days ago over 1 year ago
C++ Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Halide

Posts with mentions or reviews of Halide. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-16.

png-decoder

Posts with mentions or reviews of png-decoder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-07.
  • Anyone want to speed up a PNG decoder?
    7 projects | /r/rust | 7 Apr 2021
    I recently wrote a png-decoder for use in fontdue to parse emoji PNGs in a no_std context. I haven't yet put any effort into optimization, and from some basic benchmarks it seems the Wuffs implementation runs twice as fast.
    7 projects | /r/rust | 7 Apr 2021
    Just sent a pull request to fix that issue (https://github.com/bschwind/png-decoder/pull/11)
  • The Fastest, Safest PNG Decoder in the World
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2021
    I recently wrote a Rust PNG decoder mostly for use in no_std contexts, and it was motivated out of wanting to decode emoji for a font rasterizer.

    I didn't really put any effort into optimizing it yet, though it does use miniz_oxide and it decompresses the entire image at once instead of per-scanline.

    I'm curious if it is at all competitive with the Wuffs decoder, I'm guessing probably not because I haven't put any effort into using SIMD.

    https://github.com/bschwind/png-decoder

    But overall the implementation was pretty straightforward, I just read the RFC and wrote it out over a few weeks. One quirk of my library currently is it always returns an RGBA buffer, instead of potentially letting you save memory on a grayscale or RGB image.

    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Halide and png-decoder you can also consider the following projects:

taichi - Productive, portable, and performant GPU programming in Python.

wuffs - Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely

futhark - :boom::computer::boom: A data-parallel functional programming language

Image-Convolutaion-OpenCL

TensorOperations.jl - Julia package for tensor contractions and related operations

triton - Development repository for the Triton language and compiler

ponyc - Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language

image-png - PNG decoding and encoding library in pure Rust

qoi - The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression

simd-adler32 - A SIMD-accelerated Adler-32 hash algorithm implementation.

smhasher - Hash function quality and speed tests

maxas - Assembler for NVIDIA Maxwell architecture