# broadword-rs: broadword algorithms
[](https://travis-ci.org/tov/broadword-rs)
[](https://crates.io/crates/broadword)
[](LICENSE-MIT)
[](LICENSE-APACHE)
Broadword algorithms treat a `u64` as a parallel vector of eight `u8`s
or `i8`s.
## Usage
It’s [on crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/broadword), so you can add
```toml
[dependencies]
broadword = "*"
```
to your `Cargo.toml` and
```rust
extern crate broadword;
```
to your crate root.