google/highway

Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch

Developer toolsC++#simd#simd-instructions#simd-programming#intrinsics#avx2

1.6 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

A C++ library of portable SIMD intrinsics: one codebase targets x86 (AVX2/AVX512), ARM NEON, WASM and more, with runtime instruction-set dispatch. Aimed at engineers who need performance without tying code to a specific CPU.

Useful for

Speed up image or video processing by replacing scalar loops with vector operations
Build a cross-platform library with a single codebase for x86, ARM and WASM
Add runtime dispatch so the app picks the best SIMD instruction set on each device

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Why it’s trending

2 stars so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 5,859
Stars in a day: 3
Forks: 473
Issues and pull requests: 3,391
Watchers: 54
Language: C++
Latest release: 1.4.0 · April 23, 2026
Created: September 6, 2019
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #5, +21 stars
September 17, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #5, +21 stars

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