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14th November 2017 - Link Blog

pillow-simd (via) A “friendly fork” of the Python Pillow image library that takes advantage of SIMD operations on certain CPUs to obtain massive speed-ups—they claim 16 to 40 times faster than ImageMagick.

Posted 14th November 2017 at 9:42 pm

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