Pillow-SIMD is “following” Pillow, the friendly PIL fork. PIL is an acronym for Python Imaging Library.
Pillow-SIMD versions are 100% compatible drop-in replacements for Pillow of the same version.
SIMD stands for “single instruction, multiple data” and its essence is in performing the same operation on multiple data points simultaneously by using multiple processing elements. Common CPU SIMD instruction sets are MMX, SSE-SSE4, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, NEON.
Pillow-SIMD can be compiled with SSE4 (default) or AVX2 support. It’s faster than Pillow thanks to SIMD and heavy loops unrolling, specific instructions, which aren’t available for scalar data types.
Website: python-pillow.github.io/pillow-perf/
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Alex Clark and contributors (PIL was written by Secret Labs AB and Fredrik Lundh), Uploadcare
License: Python Imaging Library license
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