[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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(TXT) w3m dump (camel-cdr.github.io)
| 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.
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| [0] https://github.com/simdutf/simdutf
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