Have a light scalar implementation

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust, wasm
Domain
performance

Research direction

Start by reading the existing specialized, loop-unrolled implementations and the crate's feature or flag configuration. Compare the compact scalar path with the current implementations and verify that the flag-controlled build preserves compression behavior while reducing binary size, particularly for WebAssembly.

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Description

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The current implementations generate large binaries because they have one specialized implementation for each bitwidth, and do loop unrolling.

Add a flag-enabled implementation that uses a more compact scalar implementation. This would be useful for web assembly for instance.

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Rust
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