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Re:Exact Binary Vector Search for RAG in 100 Lines of Julia by ummonk on Friday May 17, 2024 @06:19PM (#40394681)
From what I've heard it's actually faster to create a 256 byte lookup table than to use popcnt.
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Re:Exact Binary Vector Search for RAG in 100 Lines of Julia by mik1998 on Friday May 17, 2024 @06:24PM (#40394711)
It used to be pretty bad on old intel processors but nowadays it should be faster than an L1 fetch.
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