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Personally, I'm on the edge on this one. I think both viewpoints are valid. One way to think of Highway is that it is portable multi-platform SIMD intrinsics for C++. While we developed it originally as a part of JPEG XL, it has long ago graduated into a general-purpose library that has various uses, including the recent Gemma.cpp ML launch. Other modern highway uses include: Audio, Browsers, Computational biology, Computer graphics, Cryptography, Grok JPEG 2000, JPEGenc, Jpegli, OpenHTJ2K, Image processing, Image viewers, Information retrieval, Machine learning, Numpy, and Robotics... (copied from: https://github.com/google/highway) I derived the name from the CityHash, FarmHash, and then HighwayHash series, and considered that Highway would link this library to its roots in the HighwayHash (of course much is also based on Jan's previous work with SIMD). Notably, I resisted using the -li naming here :-D |