For those of you who missed this on IRC:

henriksp: estebanlm: Care to run a small bench Cog vs Spur for me?
[3:32pm] henriksp: int := ZnUTF8Encoder new.
[3:32pm] henriksp: [int decodeBytes:#[67 97 115 104 44 32 108 105 107 101 32 226 130 172 44 32 105 115 32 107 105 110 103 0]] bench.
[3:32pm] henriksp: had a 16x speedup with assembly implementation vs Cog, if it's 8x vs Spur, that's just really impressive 
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[4:20pm] estebanlm: checking
[4:21pm] estebanlm: Cog: 167,000 per second.
[4:22pm] estebanlm: Cog[Spur]: 289,000 per second.
[4:23pm] estebanlm: henriksp: ping
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[4:34pm] henriksp: 70% more work done, nice!
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Yay! :)