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Fast projects on GitHub

Software emphasizing raw execution speed

As of , the most-starred Fast projects on GitHub are fiber (40.2K stars), bazel (26K stars) and pino (18.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Fast repositories with 164.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was LMCache, with +10 stars in a day.

13Projects
164.2KStars in total
+41Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+10

LMCache

LMCache/LMCache · ★ 12.1K

LMCache is a KV cache management layer for LLM inference that turns the KV cache from a temporary, per-process state into reusable, persistent 'AI-native knowledge' that can be shared across serving engines, reducing time-to-first-token and boosting throughput for long-context, multi-turn, and RAG workloads.

+9

KillerPDF

SteveTheKiller/KillerPDF · ★ 4.1K

KillerPDF is a free, open-source PDF editor for Windows built around its own PDF 2.0 engine, letting you view, annotate, OCR, merge, split, edit text, sign, fill forms, print and flatten PDFs without any subscription.

+8

duckstation

stenzek/duckstation · ★ 10.8K

DuckStation is a PlayStation 1 (PSX) emulator focused on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability, with CPU recompilers for x86-64, ARM32/64 and RISC-V and hardware renderers (D3D11/D3D12, OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal).

+4

hugo-PaperMod

adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod · ★ 14K

Hugo PaperMod is a fast, clean, responsive theme for the Hugo static site generator. It is based on hugo-paper and adds many extra features and customization options.

The all-time top

13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · gofiber/fiber

    fiber

    Fiber is an Express-inspired web framework for Go, built on top of the fasthttp engine, with fast development and high performance in mind.

    40.2K
  2. #2 · bazelbuild/bazel

    bazel

    Bazel is a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system - one tool that builds and tests software of any size, quickly and reliably.

    26K
  3. #3 · pinojs/pino

    pino

    Pino is a very low overhead JSON logger for JavaScript. It writes structured JSON logs from inside a Node.js application while keeping the performance cost minimal.

    18.3K
  1. 4

    gjson

    15.6Ktidwall/gjson · Go

    GJSON is a Go library for pulling values out of JSON documents quickly — one call with a path like 'name.last' returns the value. It also supports iteration and JSON Lines.

  2. 5

    hugo-PaperMod

    14Kadityatelange/hugo-PaperMod · HTML

    Hugo PaperMod is a fast, clean, responsive theme for the Hugo static site generator. It is based on hugo-paper and adds many extra features and customization options.

  3. 6

    LMCache

    12.1KLMCache/LMCache · Python

    LMCache is a KV cache management layer for LLM inference that turns the KV cache from a temporary, per-process state into reusable, persistent 'AI-native knowledge' that can be shared across serving engines, reducing time-to-first-token and boosting throughput for long-context, multi-turn, and RAG workloads.

  4. 7

    duckstation

    10.8Kstenzek/duckstation · C++

    DuckStation is a PlayStation 1 (PSX) emulator focused on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability, with CPU recompilers for x86-64, ARM32/64 and RISC-V and hardware renderers (D3D11/D3D12, OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal).

  5. 8

    cdnjs

    10.7Kcdnjs/cdnjs

    cdnjs is a free, open-source CDN for JavaScript/CSS/font libraries, and this specific repository is the robot-only store of the actual asset files it serves.

  6. 9

    Tkinter-Designer

    10.3KParthJadhav/Tkinter-Designer · Python

    Tkinter Designer is a tool that turns Figma designs into working Python Tkinter GUIs: it reads your design file through the Figma API and generates all the code and images the GUI needs.

  7. 10

    KillerPDF

    4.1KSteveTheKiller/KillerPDF · C#

    KillerPDF is a free, open-source PDF editor for Windows built around its own PDF 2.0 engine, letting you view, annotate, OCR, merge, split, edit text, sign, fill forms, print and flatten PDFs without any subscription.

  8. 11

    rustcast

    1.1KMystikoLab/rustcast · Rust

    RustCast is a free, open-source popup launcher for macOS written in Rust: hit a hotkey, start typing, and launch apps, utilities and workflows. It is positioned as an open-source alternative to Raycast.

  9. 12

    cve-lite-cli

    769OWASP/cve-lite-cli · TypeScript

    Most tools tell you what's wrong. CVE Lite CLI tells you what to run.

  10. 13

    superlocal

    229R44VC0RP/superlocal · TypeScript

    Superlocal is a desktop-focused email client backed by a provider-agnostic Inbox SDK. It lets you unify mailboxes from different providers (Gmail, Inbound.new, mock) into one inbox while keeping each account's identity, credentials, and provider capabilities separate.

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