Bug#1000984: ITP: highway -- Efficient and performance-portable SIMD wrapper

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : highway
  Version         : 0.15.0
  Upstream Author : JPEG XL Maintainers <jpegxl@google.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/google/highway/
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : Efficient and performance-portable SIMD wrapper

 This library provides type-safe and source-code portable wrappers over
 existing platform-specific intrinsics. Its design aims for simplicity,
 reliable efficiency across platforms, and immediate usability with current
 compilers.

Answers:

* This is a dependency of jpeg-xl (currently under review).
* This will be team maintained (phototools)