“500 microseconds is half a millisecond. That’s how fast my laptop searches through a whole book, 200,000 words, cover to cover. This is why computers are so powerful!”
A clean demonstration of SIMD optimization in Zig that beats the standard library by 59%. The implementation is readable and the benchmarks use real data. Moby Dick in half a millisecond. This is the kind of low-level performance work that makes systems programming fun.