simdutf8 VS simdutf

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simdutf

Unicode routines (UTF8, UTF16, UTF32) and Base64: billions of characters per second using SSE2, AVX2, NEON, AVX-512, RISC-V Vector Extension. Part of Node.js and Bun. (by simdutf)
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simdutf8 simdutf
15 11
509 956
1.4% 7.2%
1.2 9.1
7 days ago 5 days ago
Rust C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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simdutf8

Posts with mentions or reviews of simdutf8. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-05.

simdutf

Posts with mentions or reviews of simdutf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-25.
  • Glibc Buffer Overflow in Iconv
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
  • Vectorizing Unicode conversions on real RISC-V hardware
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2024
    The project was mostly inspired by simdutf [0] which has been around for a couple of years already, and I don't think iconv has any of its vectorized implementations for other architectures.

    [0] https://github.com/simdutf/simdutf

  • Cray-1 performance vs. modern CPUs
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2023
    I'm actually doing something quite similar in my, in progress, unicode conversion routines.

    For utf8 validation there is a clever algorithm that uses three 4-bit look-ups to detect utf8 errors: https://github.com/simdutf/simdutf/blob/master/src/icelake/i...

    Aside on LMUL, if you haven't encountered it yet: rvv allows you to group vector registers when configuring the vector configuration with vsetvl such that vector instruction operate on multiple vector registers at once. That is, with LMUL=1 you have v0,v1...v31. With LMUL=2 you effectively have v0,v2,...v30, where each vector register is twice as large. with LMUL=4 v0,v4,...v28, with LMUL=8 v0,v8,...v24.

    In my code, I happen to read the data with LMUL=2. The trivial implementation would just call vrgather.vv with LMUL=2, but since we only need a lookup table with 128 bits, LMUL=1 would be enough to store the lookup table (V requires a minimum VLEN of 128 bits).

    So instead I do six LMUL=1 vrgather.vv's instead of three LMUL=2 vrgather.vv's because there is no lane crossing required and this will run faster in hardware: (see [0] for a relevant mico benchmark)

            # codegen for equivalent of that function
  • What C++ library do you wish existed but hasn’t been created yet?
    18 projects | /r/cpp | 8 Jul 2023
    utf8 normalization, stemming, case insensitive comparison. https://github.com/unicode-rs example for rust What are options for C++? 1. translate to utf16 ( https://github.com/simdutf/simdutf ) and use icu -- slow 2. boost text, https://github.com/tzlaine/text , also slow (because the author doesn't care or couldn't care), we made a lot of patches to make our library faster than lucene, but still this part is slower than icu for utf16 (icu for utf16 also very slow...)
  • [Preprint] Transcoding Unicode Characters with AVX-512 Instructions
    1 project | /r/asm | 29 Mar 2023
    You can find the corresponding assembly code in this repository. The main branch only contains implementations based on C++ with intrinsics.
  • What's everyone working on this week (10/2023)?
    11 projects | /r/rust | 6 Mar 2023
    The next big thing is making it LSP-compatible. All language servers must implement UTF-16 based character offsets, which is kinda unfortunate considering that files are much more likely to be stored in UTF-8 (I think?). I don't want to do the UTF-8 -> UTF-16 transcoding, so instead I'll use the excellent simdutf library to count how much code points a UTF-8 string would take if it was transcoded into UTF-16 — which is much faster than actual transcoding. So this is what I'm going to do this week — rewriting parsers to produce UTF-16 offsets + some final benchmarking. After that is done, I'll consider the "research" part of this project completed and will start writing an actual Markdown parser.
  • Why would a language not natively support SIMD?
    1 project | /r/C_Programming | 17 Feb 2023
    You can find the assembly code here: https://github.com/simdutf/simdutf/tree/clausecker The corresponding C++ code is in the main branch.
  • High speed Unicode routines using SIMD
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Sep 2022
  • text-2.0-rc1 with UTF8 underlying representation is available for testing!
    1 project | /r/haskell | 20 Nov 2021
    Or via an ultrafast simdutf.
  • Simdutf: Unicode validation and transcoding at billions of characters per second
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2021

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