bf_jit vs blend2d

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bf_jit		blend2d
	Project
2	Mentions	5
1	Stars	1,466
-	Growth	1.7%
0.0	Activity	7.8
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
C++	Language	C++
-	License	zlib License

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

bf_jit

Posts with mentions or reviews of bf_jit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-14.

Adventures in JIT compilation
3 projects | /r/programming | 14 Apr 2021

I think writing a brainfuck JIT is a great hobby project for learning x86 assembly and the basics of how jit compilation of bytecode works. I also wrote an x64 jit for brainfuck in c++ ( https://github.com/ccapitalK/bf_jit ) , it's surprising how similar it ended up being architectured to the code written in part 2 of this post. It's moderately fast (runs mandelbrot in about 1.1 seconds, and runs towers of hanoi in about 0.2 seconds).
bf_jit, my over-engineered x64 JIT compiler for Brainfuck
1 project | /r/brainfuck | 12 Feb 2021

blend2d

Posts with mentions or reviews of blend2d. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-18.

Does anyone know any good open source project to optimize?
1 project | /r/simd | 8 Jun 2023

Blend2D: https://blend2d.com/
Blend2D – Fast 2D vector graphics library
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2023
Blending Modes
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2022

I don't know the history, but there is supposedly a fixed set of Porter Duff blend modes, specific algorithms. For example, this library:
> Blend2D supports all Porter & Duff compositing operators
https://blend2d.com/
X11 vs Framebuffer hardware accel.
2 projects | /r/linux_programming | 18 Jul 2022

If you can make the "putting the pixels on the screen" part fast, blend2d is a very good software rasterization solution I think.
.NET 7 introduces Native AOT
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 May 2022

regarding the topic of compiling shaders for a 2D GUI, using a JIT is a key advantage, see e.g. https://github.com/blend2d/blend2d

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bf_jit and blend2d you can also consider the following projects:

asmjit - Low-latency machine code generation

.NET Runtime - .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.

jank - A Clojure dialect hosted on LLVM with native C++ interop

firebird - Multi-platform emulator of TI Nspire calculators

vemips - MIPS32r6 Emulator

SoftwareRenderer - Software rendering engine with PBR. Built from scratch on C++.

mull - Practical mutation testing and fault injection for C and C++

integrated-lighting-control

fast_brainfuck.lua - High performance brainfuck transpiler/interpreter for Lua with FFI support. Very fast implementation with multiple optimization passes.

Memake - Yeet! C++ 2D graphics library to output primitives and other custom shapes, easily.

skybison - A fork of Instagram's experimental performance oriented greenfield implementation of Python. It features small objects; a moving GC; hidden classes; bytecode inline caching; type-specialized bytecode; an experimental template JIT.