Top 7 avx-instruction Open-Source Projects

thorium

107 4,105 9.8 C++

Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.

Project mention: Thorium: Cross-platform patched Chromium fork "fastest browser on Earth" | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-20

I found the original commit [1] since the other Github link in the thread shows the removal. I'm not entirely sure what the process was around adding to begin with
[1] https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/commit/26655c920b6a9e4...

highway

66 3,673 9.8 C++

Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch

Project mention: Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times for AMD Zen 4 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-31

The bf16 dot instruction replaces 6 instructions: https://github.com/google/highway/blob/master/hwy/ops/x86_12...

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Mercury

11 959 9.0 JavaScript

Firefox fork with compiler optimizations and patches from Librewolf, Waterfox, and GNU IceCat. (by Alex313031)

Project mention: Mercury – Compiler optimized, private Firefox fork | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-04

sha256-simd

3 942 1.0 Go

Accelerate SHA256 computations in pure Go using AVX512, SHA Extensions for x86 and ARM64 for ARM. On AVX512 it provides an up to 8x improvement (over 3 GB/s per core). SHA Extensions give a performance boost of close to 4x over native.

Project mention: The Curious Case of MD5 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-03

BLAKE3 is faster than hardware accelerated SHA-2 because the tree mode used in BLAKE3 allows hashing parts of a single message in parallel (with SHA-2, parts of a single message have to be hashed one after another, and parallelism is only used in workloads where you process multiple messages at the same time).
https://github.com/minio/sha256-simd
https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3

Thorium-Win-AVX2

5 349 5.4 Batchfile

Repo to serve AVX2 Windows builds of Thorium. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/

Project mention: Thorium – Radioactive Chromium Fork | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-03

FYI a number of streaming sites won't work - while this has Widevine, it does not have Verified Media Path (VMP) which verifies that you're running a signed binary. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Win-AVX2/issues/84#iss...
https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases is an interesting Electron fork with full Widevine+VMP support - but it's very much closed-source.

fasmg

2 194 7.0 Assembly

flat assembler g - adaptable assembly engine
vpu-count

2 40 2.6 C

Information about AVX-512 support on recent Intel processors
SaaSHub

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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