simdutf8 VS substrate-open-working-groups

That's not enough to make it interesting. There's already a porting of it in rust (https://github.com/rusticstuff/simdutf8), and inclusion in the stdlib has already been discussed: the problem is that you can't use simd in all supported targets and conditional compilation/detection is also very tricky.

No, libcore uses simple branching code at the moment, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/68455. The issue is still actively being worked on. Note, it's not a simple drop in, and there seem to be even faster algorithms. For now there is https://github.com/rusticstuff/simdutf8.

I will work on simdutf8, either

Now I have to benchmark again, it might be negligable. See also the discussion for this pull request.

Check the benchmarks section (https://github.com/rusticstuff/simdutf8#Benchmarks), second table. simdutf8 is up to 28 % faster on my Comet Lake CPU. However with pure ASCII clang does something magical with simdjson and it beats my implementation by a lot. GCC-compiled simdjson is slower all around except for a few outliers with short byte sequences.

The algorithm is the one from simdjson, the main difference is that it uses an extra step in the beginning to align reads to the SIMD block size.

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And of course you can always develop your own blockchain with Substrate to support it.

A great framework for building your own blockchain, and use numerous off-the-shelf modules, with Substrate - https://substrate.dev/

If you're interested in developing yourself, check out substrate.dev.

Assuming you are working through the substrate.dev tutorials I have just had this same problem as worked around it by reverting the node template to the `polkadot-v0.9.25` tag.

Well. Polkadot created substrate (substrate.dev) which is a framework for building a blockchain, with a lot of general components to make it easy to "plug-and-play" your customizable blockchain. I tried using their "Getting Started" guide to spin up "my own blockchain", it was done within an hour or so.

Check out https://substrate.dev/ !

Substrate is not a chain; it's the default address style, named after the Substrate development framework which virtually all (if not all) parachains are currently built with. https://substrate.dev/

Do contact the Substrate project (basis of the Polkadot/Kusama project), which is based in Berlin. You can contact them on their channel (see their website on http://substrate.dev), they're friendly and many of them are native German speakers.