faster-hex 0.3.1

Fast hex encoding.
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# faster-hex

[![License]](#license)
[![crate-badge]](https://crates.io/crates/faster-hex)

[crate-badge]: https://img.shields.io/crates/v/faster-hex.svg
[license]: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-green.svg

This program implements hex encoding a slice into a predetermined
destination using various different instruction sets.

## Benchmark

### Running
Runs benchmark
```
cargo bench
```

### Results
Machine: MacBook Pro (Early 2015) (2.7 GHz Intel Core i5)

Rust: rustc 1.31.0 (abe02cefd 2018-12-04)

Compare with [hex](https://crates.io/crates/hex):

* Encoding ~10x over
* Decoding ~10x over

Compare with [rustc-hex](https://crates.io/crates/rustc-hex):

* Encoding ~2.5x over
* Decoding ~7x over


## License

This project is licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE).

### Third party software

This product includes copies and modifications of software developed by third parties:

* [src/encode.rs](src/encode.rs) is based on
  [stdsimd](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/stdsimd), licensed
  under the MIT license or the Apache License (Version 2.0).

See the source code files for more details.

Copies of third party licenses can be found in [LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY](LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY).