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I love Daniel’s vectorized string processing posts. There’s always some clever trickery that’s hard for a guy like me (who mostly uses vector extensions for ML kernels) to get quickly.

I found myself wondering if one could create a domain-specific language for specifying string processing tasks, and then automate some of the tricks with a compiler (possibly with human-specified optimization annotations). Halide did this sort of thing for image processing (and ML via TVM to some extent) and it was a pretty significant success.