intel/isa-l
Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
82/100
- Activity 93
- Release rhythm 59
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 268.5
- age_days: 3873
- days_rel: 63
- days_push: 42
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
1093 stars · 344 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Intel's Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (ISA-L) is a C library of SIMD-optimized low-level functions for storage applications, including erasure codes, CRC variants, RAID parity, and fast deflate/inflate compression. It also ships igzip, a gzip-like command-line compression tool accelerated by the library.
Use cases
- fast erasure coding for distributed storage
- compute CRC32/CRC64 checksums quickly
- calculate RAID XOR and P+Q parity
- deflate-compatible compression with high throughput
- accelerate gzip-style compression on x86 or aarch64
- add Reed-Solomon encoding/decoding to a storage system
When to choose
- you need maximum-throughput erasure coding, CRC, RAID parity, or deflate compression in C/C++
- you target x86_64, aarch64, or RISC-V and want SIMD-accelerated primitives
- you want a battle-tested Intel-maintained storage acceleration library
When to avoid
- you need fully validated, safe APIs - parameters are not checked and invalid input causes undefined behavior
- you need a high-level or pure-portable solution without assembly dependencies like nasm
- you need cryptographic hashing - use isa-l_crypto instead
Facets
library · maturity stable
compression cryptography math developer-tools performance files windows cpp cross-platform erasure-coding crc raid simd deflate igzip storage-acceleration linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/intel/isa-l · fetched 2026-08-28 · c43bf30b8f4e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| intel/isa-l | main | 82 |
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