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CHANGES.SIMD.rst

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+Changelog (Pillow-SIMD)
+=======================
+
+3.3.0.post1
+-----------
+
+Alpha compositing
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- SSE4 and AVX2 fixed-point full loading implementation.
+  Up to 4.6x faster.
+
+3.3.0.post0
+-----------
+
+Resampling
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- SSE4 and AVX2 fixed-point full loading horizontal pass.
+- SSE4 and AVX2 fixed-point full loading vertical pass.
+
+Convertion
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- RGBA -> RGBa SSE4 and AVX2 fixed-point full loading implementations.
+  Up to 2.6x faster.
+- RGBa -> RGBA AVX2 implementation using gather instructions.
+  Up to 5x faster.
+
+
+3.2.0.post3
+-----------
+
+Resampling
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- SSE4 and AVX2 float full loading horizontal pass.
+- SSE4 float full loading vertical pass.
+
+
+3.2.0.post2
+-----------
+
+Resampling
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- SSE4 and AVX2 float full loading horizontal pass.
+- SSE4 float per-pixel loading vertical pass.
+
+
+2.9.0.post1
+-----------
+
+Resampling
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- SSE4 and AVX2 float per-pixel loading horizontal pass.
+- SSE4 float per-pixel loading vertical pass.
+- SSE4: Up to 2x for downscaling. Up to 3.5x for upscaling.
+- AVX2: Up to 2.7x for downscaling. Up to 3.5x for upscaling.
+
+
+Box blur
+~~~~~~~~
+
+- Simple SSE4 fixed-point implementations with per-pixel loading.
+- Up to 2.1x faster.

README.md

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+# Pillow-SIMD
+
+Pillow-SIMD is "following" Pillow fork (which is PIL fork itself).
+
+For more information about original Pillow, please
+[read the documentation][original-docs],
+[check the changelog][original-changelog] and
+[find out how to contribute][original-contribute].
+
+
+## Why SIMD
+
+There are many ways to improve the performance of image processing.
+You can use better algorithms for the same task, you can make better
+implementation for current algorithms, or you can use more processing unit
+resources. It is perfect when you can just use more efficient algorithm like
+when gaussian blur based on convolutions [was replaced][gaussian-blur-changes]
+by sequential box filters. But a number of such improvements are very limited.
+It is also very tempting to use more processor unit resources 
+(via parallelization) when they are available. But it is handier just
+to make things faster on the same resources. And that is where SIMD works better.
+
+SIMD stands for "single instruction, multiple data". This is a way to perform
+same operations against the huge amount of homogeneous data. 
+Modern CPU have different SIMD instructions sets like
+MMX, SSE-SSE4, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, NEON.
+
+Currently, Pillow-SIMD can be [compiled](#installation) with SSE4 (default)
+and AVX2 support.
+
+
+## Status
+
+[![Uploadcare][uploadcare.logo]][uploadcare.com]
+
+Pillow-SIMD can be used in production. Pillow-SIMD has been operating on
+[Uploadcare][uploadcare.com] servers for more than 1 year.
+Uploadcare is SAAS for image storing and processing in the cloud
+and the main sponsor of Pillow-SIMD project.
+
+Currently, following operations are accelerated:
+
+- Resize (convolution-based resampling): SSE4, AVX2
+- Gaussian and box blur: SSE4
+- Alpha composition: SSE4, AVX2
+- RGBA → RGBa (alpha premultiplication): SSE4, AVX2
+- RGBa → RGBA (division by alpha): AVX2
+
+See [CHANGES](CHANGES.SIMD.rst).
+
+
+## Benchmarks
+
+The numbers in the table represent processed megapixels of source RGB 2560x1600
+image per second. For example, if resize of 2560x1600 image is done
+in 0.5 seconds, the result will be 8.2 Mpx/s.
+
+- Skia 53
+- ImageMagick 6.9.3-8 Q8 x86_64
+- Pillow 3.3.0
+- Pillow-SIMD 3.3.0.post1
+
+Operation               | Filter  | IM   | Pillow| SIMD SSE4| SIMD AVX2| Skia 53
+------------------------|---------|------|-------|----------|----------|--------
+**Resize to 16x16**     | Bilinear| 41.37| 337.12|    571.67|    903.40|  809.49
+                        | Bicubic | 20.58| 185.79|    305.72|    552.85|  453.10
+                        | Lanczos | 14.17| 113.27|    189.19|    355.40|  292.57
+**Resize to 320x180**   | Bilinear| 29.46| 209.06|    366.33|    558.57|  592.76
+                        | Bicubic | 15.75| 124.43|    224.91|    353.53|  327.68
+                        | Lanczos | 10.80|  82.25|    153.10|    244.22|  196.92
+**Resize to 1920x1200** | Bilinear| 17.80|  55.87|    131.27|    152.11|  192.30
+                        | Bicubic |  9.99|  43.64|     90.20|    112.34|  112.84
+                        | Lanczos |  6.95|  34.51|     72.55|    103.16|  104.76
+**Resize to 7712x4352** | Bilinear|  2.54|   6.71|     16.06|     20.33|   20.58
+                        | Bicubic |  1.60|   5.51|     12.65|     16.46|   16.52
+                        | Lanczos |  1.09|   4.62|      9.84|     13.38|   12.05
+**Blur**                | 1px     |  6.60|  16.94|     35.16|          |        
+                        | 10px    |  2.28|  16.94|     35.47|          |        
+                        | 100px   |  0.34|  16.93|     35.53|          |        
+
+
+### Some conclusion
+
+Pillow is always faster than ImageMagick. And Pillow-SIMD is faster
+than Pillow in 2—2.5 times. In general, Pillow-SIMD with AVX2 always
+**8-20 times faster** than ImageMagick and almost equal to the Skia results,
+high-speed graphics library used in Chromium.
+
+### Methodology
+
+All tests were performed on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit running on
+Intel Core i5 4258U with AVX2 CPU on the single thread.
+
+ImageMagick performance was measured with command-line tool `convert` with
+`-verbose` and `-bench` arguments. I use command line because
+I need to test the latest version and this is the easiest way to do that.
+
+All operations produce exactly the same results.
+Resizing filters compliance:
+
+- PIL.Image.BILINEAR == Triangle
+- PIL.Image.BICUBIC == Catrom
+- PIL.Image.LANCZOS == Lanczos
+
+In ImageMagick, the radius of gaussian blur is called sigma and the second
+parameter is called radius. In fact, there should not be additional parameters
+for *gaussian blur*, because if the radius is too small, this is *not*
+gaussian blur anymore. And if the radius is big this does not give any
+advantages but makes operation slower. For the test, I set the radius
+to sigma × 2.5.
+
+Following script was used for testing:
+https://gist.github.com/homm/f9b8d8a84a57a7e51f9c2a5828e40e63
+
+
+## Why Pillow itself is so fast
+
+There are no cheats. High-quality resize and blur methods are used for all
+benchmarks. Results are almost pixel-perfect. The difference is only effective
+algorithms. Resampling in Pillow was rewritten in version 2.7 with 
+minimal usage of floating point numbers, precomputed coefficients and
+cache-awareness transposition.
+
+
+## Why Pillow-SIMD is even faster
+
+Because of SIMD, of course. There are some ideas how to achieve even better
+performance.
+
+- **Efficient work with memory** Currently, each pixel is read from 
+  memory to the SSE register, while every SSE register can handle
+  four pixels at once.
+- **Integer-based arithmetic** Experiments show that integer-based arithmetic
+  does not affect the quality and increases the performance of non-SIMD code
+  up to 50%.
+- **Aligned pixels allocation** Well-known that the SIMD load and store
+  commands work better with aligned memory.
+
+
+## Why do not contribute SIMD to the original Pillow
+
+Well, it's not that simple. First of all, Pillow supports a large number
+of architectures, not only x86. But even for x86 platforms, Pillow is often
+distributed via precompiled binaries. To integrate SIMD in precompiled binaries
+we need to do runtime checks of CPU capabilities.
+To compile the code with runtime checks we need to pass `-mavx2` option
+to the compiler. However this automatically activates all `if (__AVX2__)`
+and below conditions. And SIMD instructions under such conditions exist
+even in standard C library and they do not have any runtime checks.
+Currently, I don't know how to allow SIMD instructions in the code
+but *do not allow* such instructions without runtime checks.
+
+
+## Installation
+
+In general, you need to do `pip install pillow-simd` as always and if you
+are using SSE4-capable CPU everything should run smoothly.
+Do not forget to remove original Pillow package first.
+
+If you want the AVX2-enabled version, you need to pass the additional flag to C
+compiler. The easiest way to do that is define `CC` variable while compilation.
+
+```bash
+$ pip uninstall pillow
+$ CC="cc -mavx2" pip install -U --force-reinstall pillow-simd
+```
+
+
+## Contributing to Pillow-SIMD
+
+Pillow-SIMD and Pillow are two separate projects.
+Please submit bugs and improvements not related to SIMD to 
+[original Pillow][original-issues]. All bugs and fixes in Pillow
+will appear in next Pillow-SIMD version automatically.
+
+
+  [original-docs]: http://pillow.readthedocs.io/
+  [original-issues]: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/new
+  [original-changelog]: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/master/CHANGES.rst
+  [original-contribute]: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
+  [gaussian-blur-changes]: http://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/3.2.x/releasenotes/2.7.0.html#gaussian-blur-and-unsharp-mask
+  [uploadcare.com]: https://uploadcare.com/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=pillow-simd
+  [uploadcare.logo]: https://ucarecdn.com/dc4b8363-e89f-402f-8ea8-ce606664069c/-/preview/

setup.py

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     setup(name=NAME,
           version=PILLOW_VERSION,
           description='Python Imaging Library (Fork)',
-          long_description=_read('README.rst').decode('utf-8'),
+          long_description=_read('README.md').decode('utf-8'),
           author='Alex Clark (Fork Author)',
           author_email='aclark@aclark.net',
           url='https://python-pillow.org',