Add Target Feature Recommendations to Arrow Crate Docs #2305
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| //! particularly for x86_64, favour portability over performance, and LLVM will consequently avoid | ||
| //! using more recent instructions that would result in errors on older CPUs. | ||
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| //! To address this it is recommended that you specify the override the LLVM defaults either |
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Oops wording error here, will fix 馃槄
Continues the process of adding more documentation, this adds a section on how to get LLVM to be slightly less conservative and use instructions from this decade 馃槅
I put this as the first thing in the crate docs, as I think it is important, and highlights that we care about performance, but happy to move if people feel differently.