deps: add simdutf dependency
simdutf provides a faster way of providing utf8 operations with SIMD instructions. @nodejs/undici team was looking for a way to validate utf8 input, and this dependency can make it happen.
Edit: I'm proposing either exposing the following functionality through a new module (like node:encoding
) or through util.types
or buffer
validate_ascii(string)
validate_utf8(string)
count_utf8(string)
PS: simdutf
supports more features, and depending on the need, it makes more sense to expose them through a new module, instead of util.types
or buffer
.