View source for Interesting libraries

Libraries I ought check out, for possible use in my code (hopefully replacing bitrotting code I'm no longer interested in) or just to learn from (I've discovered most of these via [http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=aptitude aptitude's] "New Packages" functionality):

* [http://ssdeep.sourceforge.net/ ssdeep] ([[Debian]] package: ssdeep)
** Context-triggered hashing for fuzzy content matching. Could be used for [[ctxdiff]].
* [http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/ liboil] ([[Debian]] package: liboil-dev)
** Simple functions optimized for various CPU's. Could replace [[libdank|libdank's]] magic.c.
* [http://www.tntnet.org/cxxtools.hms cxxtools] ([[Debian]] package: libcxxtools-dev)
** Utility functionality for C++ beyond the standard libraries.
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/translate/ Pootle's python-Levenshtein] ([[Debian]] package: python-levenshtein)
** "The Levenshtein module computes Levenshtein distances, similarity ratios, generalized medians and set medians of Unicode or non-Unicode strings...The Levenshtein distance is the minimum number of single-character insertions, deletions, and substitutions to transform one string into another. It is useful for spell checking, or fuzzy matching of gettext messages."
* [http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/Rabbit/ libpmc] (No Debian package) -- [[Performance Counters|performance counter]] abstraction library
* [http://perfmon2.sourceforge.net/ libpfm] ([[Debian]] package: libpfm3) (Linux only)
** An analogue to [[libpmc]] for Linux? "The goal of the project is to design and implement, on all major architectures, a standard Linux kernel interface, to access the hardware performance counters of modern processors. The project also developed a user library, libpfm, and a tool, pfmon." Appears to require a kernel patch, even against 2.6.25.
* [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/cpusets/ libcpusets] ([[Debian]] package: [http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libcpuset libcpuset])
** [[cpuset]] management from userspace, courtesy of SGI (useful for [[NUMA]])
* [http://libhugetlbfs.ozlabs.org/ libhugetlbfs] (No Debian package) (Linux only) -- transparent [[Pages|hugetlbfs]]-backed allocation
* AMD's [http://developer.amd.com/cpu/libraries/acml/pages/default.aspx AMD Core Math Library] (ACML) provides FORTRAN AMD64-optimized math routines
* AMD's [http://developer.amd.com/cpu/Libraries/AMDStringLibrary/Pages/default.aspx AMD String Library] provides AMD64-optimized versions of [[Glibc|libc]] string functions
* [http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ Portable Hardware Locality] library ([[Debian]] package: [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libhwloc-dev libhwloc])
** Maintained by the OpenMPI team
* [http://www.ohloh.net/p/dict LIBMAA] ([[Debian]] package: libmaa2) provides memory-optimized data structures and algorithms useful to compiler authors
* [http://libprefetch.cs.ucla.edu/ libprefetch] seeks to eliminate...seeks
==See also==
* [[Working with libraries]]
* The [[Network servers]] page lists event libraries