[HN Gopher] Escaping strings faster with AVX-512
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       Escaping strings faster with AVX-512
        
       Author : ibobev
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2022-09-14 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | ArrayBoundCheck wrote:
       | The internet is so bad that when I see titles like these I know
       | the article will not be true at all. The great thing is I can see
       | lemire next to the title and I absolutely know not only did he
       | walk the walk but he can write about it in an understandable way.
       | I upvoted before reading and I haven't yet been disappointed
        
       | dwrodri wrote:
       | It is really unfortunate that AVX-512 has been such a mess when
       | it came to support from Intel on their newer hardware platforms.
       | I think Dr. Lemire has gone quite a ways in demonstrating that
       | there's a lot of potential for software to see performance gains
       | with this type of platform, but I think we'll need further
       | improvements in developer experience before it's more
       | commonplace.
       | 
       | The other way to look at it is that quite frankly most business
       | services just don't hit a performance barrier where you're
       | sitting and waiting on a string operation. You're usually waiting
       | on some sort of I/O.
        
       | hkgjjgjfjfjfjf wrote:
        
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