Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Hi Bruce,

> Add support for SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2) vector operations on
x86-64 architectures (John Naylor)

> Add support for Advanced SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) (NEON)
instructions on ARM architectures (Nathan Bossart)

Nit: It's a bit odd that SIMD is spelled out in only the Arm entry, and
perhaps expanding the abbreviations can be left out.

> Allow arrays searches to use vector operations on x86-64 architectures
(John Naylor)

We can leave out the architecture here (see below). Typo: "array searches"

All the above seem appropriate for the "source code" section, but the
following entries might be better in the "performance" section:

> Allow ASCII string detection to use vector operations on x86-64
architectures (John Naylor)
> Allow JSON string processing to use vector operations on x86-64
architectures (John Naylor)
>
> ARM?

Arm as well. For anything using 16-byte vectors the two architectures are
equivalently supported. For all the applications, I would just say "vector"
or "SIMD".

And here maybe /processing/parsing/.

> Allow xid/subxid searches to use vector operations on x86-64
architectures (Nathan Bossart)

When moved to the performance section, it would be something like "improve
scalability when a large number of write transactions are in progress".

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John Naylor
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