Add comment to the SIMD intersection logic. (#14073)

I did not know it when I checked in the code, but this is almost exactly the v1
intersection algorithm from the "SIMD compression and the intersection of
sorted integers" paper.
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@ -771,6 +771,10 @@ final class PanamaVectorUtilSupport implements VectorUtilSupport {
@Override
public int findNextGEQ(int[] buffer, int target, int from, int to) {
if (ENABLE_FIND_NEXT_GEQ_VECTOR_OPTO) {
// This effectively implements the V1 intersection algorithm from
// D. Lemire, L. Boytsov, N. Kurz SIMD Compression and the Intersection of Sorted Integers
// with T = INT_SPECIES.length(), ie. T=8 with AVX2 and T=16 with AVX-512
// https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.6399
for (; from + INT_SPECIES.length() < to; from += INT_SPECIES.length() + 1) {
if (buffer[from + INT_SPECIES.length()] >= target) {
IntVector vector = IntVector.fromArray(INT_SPECIES, buffer, from);