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deps: add simdutf dependency

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge github/fork/anonrig/deps/simdutf into main

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.

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