toks
exact tokenizers ids, as fast as the hardware allows
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Details
- External ID
- 1405607848
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- toks
- Website domain
- actual.inc
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 93
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.82
- Tags
- assembly, avx2, bpe, c, huggingface, neon, sentencepiece, simd, tokenizer, wordpiece
Enrichment
- Niche
- machine learning developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- fast hardware-accelerated tokenizer for ai models
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Achieving hardware-saturating tokenization speeds requires expert-level systems programming, low-level SIMD optimization, and cache-conscious memory layout engineering.
What it would actually take: This involves writing C++ or Rust using AVX-512/NEON SIMD intrinsics, custom trie/hash map data structures, and lock-free thread pooling to implement BPE and WordPiece algorithms matching HuggingFace tokenizers bit-for-bit. The barrier is extreme low-level profiling, cache-line alignment, and micro-architectural optimizations that surpass standard compilers.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #180 of 985 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
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