Re: introduce optimized linear search functions that return index of matching element

On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 12:29 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 02:54:14PM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> > v6 demonstrates why this should have been put off towards the end.
(more below)
>
> Since the SIMD code is fresh in my mind, I wanted to offer my review for
> 0001 in the "Improve dead tuple storage for lazy vacuum" thread [0].
> However, I agree with John that the SIMD part of that work should be left
> for the end

As I mentioned in the radix tree thread, I don't believe this level of
abstraction is appropriate for the intended use case. We'll want to
incorporate some of the low-level simd.h improvements later, so you should
get authorship credit for those. I've marked the entry "returned with
feedback".

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John Naylor
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