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Re:Parsing short hexadecimal strings efficiently by tyingq on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @06:42PM (#19687076)
Of course, you don't always get to choose your input. Feeds often come from 3rd parties or odd platforms you have no control over.

I've certainly wasted lots of CPU cycles on EBCDIC to ASCII.

As for this case, I assume lots of people have to parse high volume log files with things like IPV6 addresses, MAC addresses, etc. And no ability to change the things that create them.

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