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When Python Isn’t Fast Enough: Building a Token-Aware RAG Chunker in Rust

A developer built a token-aware RAG chunker in Rust after finding that naive character-count splitting corrupts embeddings and Python hits a parallelism ceiling. The Rust extension improves performance for AI applications.

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