After listening to the JSON episode, I've been spending the last few days coding up a SIMD implementation of LZ77 substring matching, for use in DEFLATE. I use

After listening to the JSON episode, I've been spending the last few days coding up a SIMD implementation of LZ77 substring matching, for use in DEFLATE. I used Zig, which has first-class SIMD support. As in, no need to go down to the assembly or use intrinsics, or even use a library. I just got it working and haven't had time to profile it, however (I'm new to profiling code).