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🚀 Wow, someone invented a string processing library 109 times faster than an Nvidia H100. 🤔 But wait, isn't that just like saying you run faster than a tortoise in a Ferrari race? 🐢🏎️ I guess we'll all be using "StringZilla" at our next pointless speed competition! 😂
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Processing Strings 109x Faster than Nvidia on H100

I’ve just shipped StringZilla v4, the first CUDA-capable release of my SIMD-first string processing library. Which in English means that it is now fast not only on CPUs, but also on GPUs! I’ve wanted to add ROCm-acceleration for AMD GPUs 🤦‍♂️ I’ve wanted to include a parallel multi-pattern search algorithm 🤦‍♂️ I’ve wanted to publish it back in December 2024 🤦‍♂️ So not everything went to plan, but “StringZilla 4 CUDA” is finally here, bringing 500+ GigaCUPS of edit-distance calculations in a pip install-able package, and a few more tricks up its sleeve, aimed at large-scale Information Retrieval, Databases and Datalake systems, as well as Bioinformatics workloads. All under a permissive Apache 2.0 open-source license, free for commercial use. So in this post, we’ll cover some of the most interesting parts of this release, including:

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Faster String Processing With Bloom Filters https://hackaday.com/2023/09/21/faster-string-processing-with-bloom-filters/ #SoftwareDevelopment #stringprocessing #computerscience #bloomfilter

Faster String Processing With Bloom Filters

At first, string processing might seem very hard to optimize. If you’re looking for a newline in some text, you have to check every character in the string against every type of newline, righ…

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