Gigatoken: Open-Source Tokenizer Claiming 100x Speedup Over Tiktoken
Thrumpwart · reddit · 2026-07-22
A developer has introduced Gigatoken, a new open-source tokenizer. According to the project's benchmark data, it delivers extreme performance improvements, running approximately 100x faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken and 500-1000x faster than standard Hugging Face tokenizers.
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