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Gigatoken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

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Summary

Gigatoken is a Rust-based tokenizer claimed to be ~1000x faster than HuggingFace tokenizers, enabling GB/s throughput. The readme covers installation, compatibility with HF tokenizers and tiktoken, and extensive benchmarks across various CPUs, highlighting SIMD and caching optimizations.

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