highway

Efficient and performance-portable SIMD

Version

1.4.0-1
(2026-05-10)

Size

1.8

MiB

Repository

HaikuPorts
x86_64
Highway is a C++ library for SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data), i.e. applying the same operation to 'lanes'.

Why Highway?

- more portable (same source code) than platform-specific intrinsics,
- works on a wider range of compilers than compiler-specific vector extensions,
- more dependable than autovectorization,
- easier to write/maintain than assembly language,
- supports **runtime dispatch**,
- supports **variable-length vector** architectures.