introduces a new experimental simd/archsimd package, which can be enabled by setting the environment variable GOEXPERIMENT=simd at build time. This package provides access to architecture-specific SIMD operations. It is currently available on the amd64 architecture and supports 128-bit, 256-bit, and 512-bit vector types, such as Int8x16 and Float64x8, with operations such as Int8x16.Add. The API is not yet considered stable. We intend to provide support for other architectures in future versions, but the API intentionally architecture-specific and thus non-portable. In addition, we plan to develop a high-level portable SIMD package in the future. See the package documentation and the proposal issue for more details.