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libvips Documentation
We have pages running through Build for Ubuntu, Build for Debian, Build for macOS, Build for Windows, Build for Cygwin.
The Hello World page has some sample code you can use to test builds.
The Debugging page gives sample build lines for helgrind, valgrind, threadsanitizer and so on.
The HOWTO----Image-shrinking page runs through best practice for image shrinking with libvips.
Projects using libvips lists related projects.
VIPS History - some interesting background on its 30 years of development
The Speed and memory use page implements the same task in a range of image processing systems and compares the run time and memory use in each case.
The Benchmarks page lists timings for the standard libvips benchmark on a variety of machines, from Chromebooks to supercomputers.