simde VS darktable

I was curious about these libraries a few weeks ago and did some searching. Is there one that's got a clearly dominating set of users or contributors?

I don't know what a good way to compare these might be, other than perhaps activity/contributor count.

[1] https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde

[2] https://github.com/ermig1979/Simd

[3] https://github.com/google/highway

[4] https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen

[5] https://github.com/shibatch/sleef

I note that SIMDe doesn't have RISC-V support yet (but it does support Loongson LoongArch):

https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde/

There are still a ton of things to do to get the Debian riscv64 port going too:

https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New

SIMDe is everything you're after: https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde

> low level code that can run on multiple hardware architectures

I thought SIMD Everywhere was a pretty interesting project for that, lets you write x86 SSE/AVX code and run it on non-x86 architectures:

https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde

> architecture-specific features such as SSE/AVX which is not portable.

I don’t have hands-on experience, but somewhere on HN I saw this: https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde If starting a new cross-platform project today, I would try that library first, before doing the usual intrinsics.

There's also darktable which is open source but rather .. involved. It's incredibly powerful but has a steep learning curve. https://www.darktable.org/

> the while loop of death (source: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/darktable-4....)

shudder

Yeah, I too wouldn't want to volunteer to contribute to a project which is OK with this.

https://www.darktable.org/ or https://www.rawtherapee.com/ both free, open source and cross platform

Author has a blog post here, https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent..., which exhibits some example code, for example, this: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/darktable-4....

That's a far cry from what I'd find acceptable in any project.

Darktable - Price: Free Free and open-source photo editing software for Mac that features advanced editing tools and a user-friendly interface.

The base M2 is plenty cheap and pack a lot of punch in it, it flies through my RAW edits in darktable (https://www.darktable.org/) even with just 8GB of RAM. (Granted I don't have much things else running when using darktable).