Just because it was first discovered 15 years ago, does not mean it wasn't still a good idea.
Keep on thinking. You never know what else you will come up with.
Keep on thinking. You never know what else you will come up with.
A lot of string comparisons use SIMD now. In C++ if you use std:string on GCCit has done it for years. I bet Rust and Python (in the compiled runtime) ate doing it too.
No sense leaving easy performance gains on the table.