Life & fun · November 15, 2019
Faster UTF-8 validator
A very fast library for validating UTF-8 using AVX2/SSE4 instructions - zwegner/faster-utf8-validator
Faster UTF-8 validator launched on November 15, 2019 with 122 votes, #214 of 3,203 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
Faster UTF-8 validator is a software tool designed to check whether text strings conform to UTF-8 encoding standards. It processes UTF-8 data more efficiently than standard validation methods. The tool is intended for developers and engineers who work with text encoding in their applications. It is available as an open-source project on GitHub, making it accessible to programmers who need reliable UTF-8 validation for their development work.
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