liboil ☆

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Description:
C library of simple functions optimized for various CPUs

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: multimedia optimization c-library simd performance

Install: brew install liboil

About:
Liboil is a C library designed to provide a collection of simple functions that are heavily optimized for specific CPU architectures. It serves as an abstraction layer, allowing multimedia applications to leverage low-level optimizations like SIMD instructions without writing platform-specific code. This results in significant performance improvements for signal processing tasks across different hardware.

Key Features:

Provides optimized implementations of common multimedia functions
Abstracts CPU-specific optimizations (MMX, SSE, AltiVec)
Designed for ease of integration into existing applications
Cross-platform support for various architectures

Use Cases:

Accelerating video and audio codecs in multimedia players
Optimizing signal processing algorithms in scientific software
Improving performance of graphics rendering pipelines

Alternatives:

libyuv – Focuses specifically on YUV video processing, whereas Liboil covers a broader range of generic signal processing functions.
FFmpeg (assembly optimizations) – FFmpeg includes its own highly optimized assembly code, often negating the need for a separate abstraction library like Liboil.

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