Re: a couple of small patches for simd.h

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 0001 essentially reverts commit c6a43c2, and instead fixes the problem
> (MSVC dislikes casts to the same type) by omitting the cast in the
> problematic line in pg_lfind32().  While working on optimizing hex_encode()
> and hex_decode() [0], I noticed that implicit conversions sufficed.

I don't remember why that cast was there, but I suggest testing on gcc
/ aarch64 if you haven't already.

As for 0002, +1 for more succinct expressions when the hardware supports it.

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John Naylor
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