GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization
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.