Graphene contains optimizations for speeding up vector operations, those optimizations are optional, and used only if both Graphene was compiled with support for them and if the system you're running on has them. Currently, Graphene supports the following platform-specific fast paths: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) 2 ARM NEON GCC vector extensions In the remote case in which none of these optimizations are available, Graphene will fall back to a naive scalar implementation Graphene can, optionally, provide types for integrating with GObject properties and signals, as well as introspection information for its use with other languages through introspection-based bindings. WWW: http://ebassi.github.io/graphene/