Parsing IPv6 Addresses Crazily Fast with AVX-512 (opens in new tab)

Every machine connected to the Internet has an address called an IP address. Originally, these addresses were 32-bit integers (IPv4), giving a theoretical maximum of about four billion distinct addresses. We are all familiar with these addresses (e.g., 192.168.0.0). There was a big fuss about how we would run out of addresses. It never happened … Continue reading Parsing IPv6 Addresses Crazily Fast with AVX-512