Sep 0.10.0: CSV Parsing Hits 21 GB/s with AVX-512 Optimizations
2025-05-09
Sep 0.10.0 achieves a blistering 21 GB/s CSV parsing speed on the AMD 9950X, a ~3x improvement since its initial release in 2023! This blog post delves into the suboptimal AVX-512 code generation in .NET 9.0 and how Sep's performance was boosted by circumventing mask register issues. The new AVX-512-to-256 parser outperforms both AVX2 and the older AVX-512 parsers. Multi-threaded benchmarks show Sep parsing a million rows in just 72ms on the 9950X, reaching 8 GB/s.
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