Hi,

On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 at 15:19, KAZAR Ayoub <ma_kazar@esi.dz> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 12:36 PM Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 0002 has an attempt to remove some branches from SIMD code but since
>> it is kind of functional change, I wanted to attach that as another
>> patch. I think we can apply some parts of this, if not all.
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> 0002 sounds really good to have, haven't measured the diff but it's very logical.

I agree with you. I saw very small speedups like 1%-2% but I think
changes make sense regardless of the performance improvement. 

> Another quick question though, do we need USE_NO_SIMD for any reason? I just remembered that there's some simd paths like json that don't use it.

vector8_eq() and vector8_highbit_mask() don't have non-SIMD
implementations, so we need to use USE_NO_SIMD.