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ARM processors in mobile devices and servers support special instructions like ARM NEON for parallelism using SIMD. More recent ARM processors also support advanced instructions called SVE (Scalable Vector Extension) and its updates (SVE 2 and SVE 2.1). Mixing ARM NEON with SVE can enhance efficiency, allowing tasks to be accomplished with fewer instructions. Functions like svset_neonq and svget_neonq help convert between NEON and SVE vectors, optimizing performance on processors that support these extensions.

Mixing ARM NEON with SVE code for fun and profit – Daniel Lemire's blog