GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

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Rusttokenizerperformance optimizationAI/MLSIMDcache hierarchies

Author: syrusakbary

Date: 7/22/2026

Article Summary:
Gigatoken is a Rust-based tokenizer that achieves speeds of up to GB/s, making it 1000x faster than HuggingFace's tokenizers. It uses SIMD and cache hierarchies for optimization.