Yeah, I was just looking at their code. It's similarly super heavy on SIMD processing, which would significantly impact the cost of the removed branches - it lo

Yeah, I was just looking at their code. It's similarly super heavy on SIMD processing, which would significantly impact the cost of the removed branches - it looks like the masochists supported escape characters. I would be interested in knowing whether they do have any benchmarks to validate the removal of error handling, etc