Speedups with SIMD

[Rodrigo Mesquita]

I recently came across https://github.com/simdutf/simdutf and was wondering if any of its ideas could be of interest to text and perhaps reused by text

Just throwing it out there for a short discussion.

We can close this issue if it's infeasible or unnecessary/not worth it

[Oleg Grenrus]

Simdutf is used in text: it's right there https://github.com/haskell/text/tree/master/simdutf

[Rodrigo Mesquita]

Ah! How cool! :-) Thanks

[ˌbodʲɪˈɡrʲim]

@alt-romes we are likely to be one of the first production users of simdutf, https://github.com/simdutf/simdutf#usage ;)