On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 11:18:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8js69n/validating_utf8_strings_using_as_little_as_07/
I re-implemented some common string functionality at Remedy using
SSE 4.2 instructions. Pretty handy. Except we had to turn that
code off for released products since nowhere near enough people
are running SSE 4.2 capable hardware.
The code linked doesn't seem to use any instructions newer than
SSE2, so it's perfectly safe to run on any x64 processor. Could
probably be sped up with newer SSE instructions if you're only
ever running internally on hardware you control.
