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Published by r/LocalLLaMA (T2 source). The original is at https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1v2yfqp/gigatoken_a_new_open_source_tokenizer_100x_faster/.

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The summary and note below are generated by the signal pipeline — they are Beyond Desk’s reading, not quotations from the source.

A new open-source tokenizer called Gigatoken claims to be roughly 100x faster than Tiktoken and 500-1000x faster than Huggingface tokenizers, shared on r/LocalLLaMA.

Order-of-magnitude speedups on tokenization matter for local LLM pipelines where tokenization throughput is a bottleneck. Worth a look for anyone optimizing inference stacks.

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