On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 9:35 AM Robert Treat <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 12:40:38PM +0700, John Naylor wrote: > > > > Optionally use AVX2 CPU instructions for calculating page checksums > > > > (Matthew Sterrett, Andrew Kim) § > > > > > > > Optionally use ARM Crypto Extension to Compute CRC32C (John Naylor) § > > > > > > There's no option for these, the extensions are used where available. > > > > So, the "Optionally" indicates we use these instructions if the CPU > > supports them. I assume we don't use them on all CPUs. Can you > > suggest better wording? > > > > I think the simplest change would be to replace "optionally" with > "when available", although ISTR we use wording along the lines of "Add > support for" or "is now supported" when runtime/compiler checks are > involved.
That would be fine. The v17 and v18 release notes didn't have such qualifying language, for things that are less common than the above (SVE, AVX-512), but whatever. -- John Naylor Amazon Web Services
