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New open-source index PRISM claims to beat pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

Developers have released PRISM, an alpha-stage PostgreSQL index access method built in C that targets approximate nearest neighbor search. It combines hierarchical centroid routing, RaBitQ quantization and SIMD-optimized distance calculations, and supports dynamic inserts, updates and deletes alongside existing pgvector columns.

Chips and Cheese benchmarks Windows 11's Prism translator against native Arm code

A technical analysis compares Microsoft's Prism binary translator, which lets x86-64 Windows software run on Arm-based aarch64 processors, against native Geekbench 7 performance. Using a pro key from Primate Labs founder John Poole to profile individual workloads, the tester measures how much performance is lost when translating x86-64 instructions instead of running aarch64 code directly.