StringZilla Benchmarks

Benchmarks that validate the SIMD-accelerated backends against serial baselines and measure throughput on real-world workloads. Each C++ benchmark compares the serial baseline against every available SIMD backend for the same operation, for example sz_find_serial against sz_find_haswell against sz_find_skylake. This is the internal, cross-backend counterpart to StringWars, which instead compares only the single best-available StringZilla backend against external libraries.

CPU

• find.cpp — bidirectional substring, byte, and byteset search.
• token.cpp — token-level hashing, checksums, equality, and ordering.
• sequence.cpp — sorting, partitioning, and set intersection of string arrays.
• memory.cpp — copies, moves, fills, and lookup-table transforms.
• cipher.cpp — AES-256 counter mode and Galois/counter mode throughput.
• container.cpp — STL associative containers with string keys.
• similarities.cpp — Levenshtein, Needleman-Wunsch, and Smith-Waterman scoring.
• fingerprints.cpp — MinHash rolling fingerprints and multi-pattern search.
• utf8_iterate.cpp and utf8_uncased.cpp — UTF-8 iteration, segmentation, and case-folding throughput.

CUDA

• similarities.cu — similarity scoring on CUDA GPUs.
• fingerprints.cu — fingerprinting on CUDA GPUs.

Other Bindings

• stringzilla.go — Go binding benchmark.

shared.hpp is the common harness. All benchmarks read environment variables for configuration — backend filter, batch size, and stress mode — documented in each file's header.