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High-performance .NET BPE tokenizer — up to 618 MiB/s, competitive with Rust. Zero-allocation counting, multilingual cache, o200k/cl100k/r50k/p50k encodings + HuggingFace tokenizer.json support.

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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
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Avg merge
14h 51m
Merged PRs (30d)
4
Dominant language
C#
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Sep 25, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
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