Efficient and performance-portable vector software

CPUs provide SIMD/vector instructions that apply the same operation to multiple data items. This can reduce energy usage e.g. fivefold because fewer instructions are executed. We also often see 5-10x speedups.

Code: https://github.com/google/highway

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05982v1

Testing: https://github.com/google/highway/blob/master/g3doc/release_testing_process.md

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