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Subject: Re: use ARM intrinsics in pg_lfind32() where available
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John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> I wonder if we should explain briefly what saturating arithmetic is. I
> had never encountered it outside of a SIMD programming context.

+1, it's at least worth a sentence to define the term.

			regards, tom lane