Convert a string (dec) to value SWAR version: naive and 3 different attempts to improve certain parts of naive conversion. For details see full article. SSE and SSSE3 version, see full article. Performance comparison Output from the program benchmark. Core i5 M540 @ 2.53GHz method time [us] speedup naive 247514 1.00 SWAR (1) 158043 1.57 SWAR (2) 148712 1.66 SWAR (3) 125978 1.96 SSE 37704 6.56 SSSE3 27271 9.07 Skylake Core i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz method time [us] speedup naive 131904 1.00 SWAR (1) 84933 1.55 SWAR (2) 84945 1.55 SWAR (3) 75862 1.74 SSE 18698 7.05 SSSE3 17693 7.45