engineering effort to make something 1000x faster that accounts for 0.1% of total runtime is the most software developer thing imaginable
This depends on what your workflow is. There are use cases for tokenization that don't always involve immediately feeding the text into a model.
It's pretty funny but then again, why not if it's as trivial to simplify as it appears
"The pursuit of excellence does not need justification."
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