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brew install orc v0.4.42 BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause

Just-in-time compiler and execution engine for GStreamer media pipelines, written in C.

Why you might care

ORC optimizes media processing in GStreamer by compiling custom assembly at runtime, avoiding the need to write hand-optimized SIMD code for each platform. It's a build/runtime dependency for GStreamer and related multimedia frameworks. Use it if you're developing media applications on GStreamer or need efficient bytecode-to-native compilation for performance-critical signal processing.

Categories

compiler library media-processing

Alternatives

LLVM TinyJIT
7.2k
30-day installs · #449
37.2k
90-day · #333
108.1k
365-day · #396

Build dependencies

meson ninja

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