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		magicalhippo 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fundamental flaws of SIMD ISAs (2021) Agreed, but the points raised by GP are valid in terms of using that article as an argument that AVX-512 can decode UTF-8 well. It might be fast, but it's not a UTF-8 decoder. It's a transcoder to a fixed, and very limited, target encoding.

kjs3 8 months ago [–]

I though it was pretty clear the GP was talking about Daniels article, not the blog post, but I guess I can see two readings.

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