SIMD processing

[suhasghorp]

Hello, can anyone please explain the SIMD hashing code please? completely new to SIMD and reading up on it at https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/simd/ but it would go a long way if there was an explanation of what's going on starting with these lines:

__m128i separators = _mm_set1_epi8(';'); __m128i chars = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)data);

What is the algorithm used to generate the hash in SIMD version?

Thank you.