@killercup feel you might appreciate this SIMD coolness :D https://lemire.me/blog/2018/05/16/validating-utf-8-strings-using-as-little-as-0-7-cycles-per-byte/ …
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First trivial and mostly literal translation of the C code, plus benchmarks:https://github.com/killercup/simd-utf8-check …
Ohhh, awesome! Interesting to see how it's not faster across the board. I'm guessing that's probably a testament to Rust's quality already :D