Per Vognsen on Nostr: Very strange to read a paper that has a section titled "SIMD Implementation" and ...
Very strange to read a paper that has a section titled "SIMD Implementation" and sentences like "Utilizing SIMD instructions, specifically POPCNT, this step efficiently identifies varint terminations within the 64-bit block" and all it ever does is word-level popcnt, clz and pext.
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