Similarily, I made a couple of year ago a UTF8 decoder using SIMD. It is almost branchless. (The branches are there only to detect errors) https://woboq.com/blo

Similarily, I made a couple of year ago a UTF8 decoder using SIMD. It is almost branchless. (The branches are there only to detect errors) https://woboq.com/blog/utf-8-processing-using-simd.html https://woboq.com/blog/utf-8-processing-using-simd.html