GSL VS libvips

Compare GSL vs libvips and see what are their differences.

GSL

GNU Scientific Library with CMake build support and AMPL bindings (by ampl)
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GSL libvips
4 23
517 8,909
1.7% 1.9%
6.7 9.2
4 months ago 8 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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GSL

Posts with mentions or reviews of GSL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-22.
  • C++ for numerical programming
    4 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 22 Jun 2021
    Some time ago, I started on a similar journey. Started with https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
  • C++ learning advice
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 5 Apr 2021
    I might recommend exploring some libraries that could be used. GSL https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ is an example. This might be an equivalent of NumPy.
  • C Deep
    80 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2021
    GSL - The GNU Scientific Library; a sophisticated numerical library. GPL-3.0-only.

libvips

Posts with mentions or reviews of libvips. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GSL and libvips you can also consider the following projects:

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

sharp - High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.

GD - GD Graphics Library

FFTW - DO NOT CHECK OUT THESE FILES FROM GITHUB UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. (See below.)

tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

Torch - http://torch.ch

FreeImage - A custom distribution of FreeImage, with a CMake-based build system. Used by the Athena Game Framework.

CImg - The CImg Library is a small and open-source C++ toolkit for image processing

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

Blitz++ - Git mirror of Blitz++ at http://sourceforge.net/projects/blitz/

OpenImageIO - Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.