These libraries fall into two categories: (1) C/C++ libraries that makes use of SIMD or other specialized instructions, (2) Node.js libraries that provide fast implementations one way or another (SIMD or just careful optimization).
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base64 - Base64 encoding/decoding.
Type: C99 library.
Node.js bindings: https://github.com/lovell/64 ISA: SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, NEON; OpenMP. -
bswap - Byte-swapping faster than Node.js's built-in
Buffer.swap16/32/64().
Type: Node.js module.
ISA: SSSE3, AVX2, AVX512, NEON. -
fast-hex - Hex encoding/decoding.
Type: C++ header and Node.js module.
ISA: AVX2. -
ISA-L - crc, erasure coding and deflate in the Intel Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (ISA-L)].
Type: C and assembly.
Node.js bindings: https://github.com/primitybio/node-isal
ISA: Runtime dispatch using up to AVX-512 -
levenshtein-sse - Levenshtein distance.
Type: C++ header.
ISA: SSSE3, SSE4.1, AVX2 -
libjpeg-turbo - JPEG library.
Type: C library.
ISA: MMX, SSE2, AVX2, NEON, AltiVec. -
Ivan Dimokvic's implementation of MWC1616 pseudo-random number generator. His original code post is no longer online, but a version of it is here: https://github.com/andeplane/MWC1616-PRNG-CPP.
Type: Originally C, that repo is C++.
ISA: SSE or SSE4. (In my benchmarks on a Skylake processor, the SSE implementation is faster than the SSE4 implementation.) -
sse-popcount - A few dozen implementations of population counting.
Type: C++ implementations with benchmarks.
ISA: SSE, SSSE3, AVX2, AVX512 or NEON -
sse4_crc32 and its wrapper with JS-fallback fast-crc32c - CRC32C calculation for buffers.
Note: ISA-L (above) is up to ~3.4x faster.
Type: Node.js module.
ISA: SSE4.2. -
turbo-net - Low-level TCP library faster than Node.js's core TCP module.
Type: Node.js module.
ISA: Generic. -
volk - Librarary of vector-optimized kernels. A lot of these look like they will be memory throughput-limited, but they show how to do various tasks if you want to combine them to make your own fast functions.
Type: C.
ISA: Various (looks like up to AVX2).