[HN Gopher] Vectorizing Unicode conversions on real RISC-V hardware
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       Vectorizing Unicode conversions on real RISC-V hardware
        
       Author : camel-cdr
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2024-01-27 16:44 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | rwmj wrote:
       | It would be cool to add this to iconv (part of glibc I think).
       | There's a lot of code that interfaces with Windows formats that
       | converts to and from UTF-16LE. In fact I was just fixing a
       | binutils bug recently in code which did this.
        
         | camel-cdr wrote:
         | 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
        
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