tiktokenx 0.1.0

A high-performance Rust implementation of OpenAI's tiktoken library
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# tiktokenx

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Fast Rust implementation of OpenAI's tiktoken tokenizer.

## Features

- Drop-in replacement for Python tiktoken
- All OpenAI models supported (GPT-4, GPT-5, o1, etc.)
- Real vocabulary file loading with hash verification
- Zero-copy operations for optimal performance
- Comprehensive test suite (24 tests)

## Installation

```toml
[dependencies]
tiktokenx = "0.1"
```

## Usage

```rust
use tiktokenx::{get_encoding, encoding_for_model};

// Get encoding by name
let enc = get_encoding("cl100k_base").unwrap();
let tokens = enc.encode("hello world", &[], &[]).unwrap();
let text = enc.decode(&tokens).unwrap();

// Get encoding for a model
let enc = encoding_for_model("gpt-4").unwrap();
let token_count = enc.encode("Hello, world!", &[], &[]).unwrap().len();
```

## Supported Models

| Model Family | Models                             | Encoding                 |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------ |
| GPT-5        | gpt-5                              | o200k_base               |
| GPT-4        | gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4o         | cl100k_base / o200k_base |
| GPT-3.5      | gpt-3.5-turbo                      | cl100k_base              |
| o1           | o1, o1-mini, o1-preview            | o200k_base               |
| Legacy       | text-davinci-003, code-davinci-002 | p50k_base                |

## Performance

Benchmarks on Apple M1 Pro comparing tiktokenx vs Python tiktoken:

| Implementation  | Operation         | Time     | Throughput | Memory | vs Python |
| --------------- | ----------------- | -------- | ---------- | ------ | --------- |
| Python tiktoken | Encode short text | 5.7 μs   | 4.8 MiB/s  | 0.1 MB | 1.0x      |
| tiktokenx       | Encode short text | 4.1 μs   | 6.7 MiB/s  | 0.5 MB | **1.4x**  |
| Python tiktoken | Encode long text  | 482.1 μs | 8.9 MiB/s  | 0.1 MB | 1.0x      |
| tiktokenx       | Encode long text  | 175.4 μs | 24.5 MiB/s | 2.0 MB | **2.7x**  |

**tiktokenx is 2.1x faster and uses 0.1x less memory on average!**

## Development

```bash
# Run tests
cargo test

# Run benchmarks
cargo bench

# Check formatting
cargo fmt --check

# Run clippy
cargo clippy -- -D warnings
```

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

## License

MIT