more prior art, typo fixes,...

Author: gnzlbg

text/0000-ppv.md

@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ methods which, on overflow, produce the correct mathematical result modulo `2^n`
 
 If any of the vector elements is divided by zero the behavior is undefined.
 
-#### Binary minmax vertical operations
+#### Binary `min`/`max` vertical operations
 
 All portable signed integer, unsigned integer, and floating-point vectors
 implement the following methods:
@@ -1244,15 +1244,21 @@ If there is consensus for it the RFC can be easily amended.
 # Prior art
 [prior-art]: #prior-art
 
-All of this is implemented in `stdsimd` and can be used on nightly today via the
-`std::simd` module. The `stdsimd` crate is an effort started by @burntsushi to
-put the `rust-lang-nursery/simd` crate into a state suitable for stabilization.
-The `rust-lang-nursery/simd` crate was mainly developed by @huonw and IIRC it is
-heavily-inspired by Dart's SIMD which is from where the `f32x4` naming scheme
-comes from. This RFC has been heavily inspired by Dart, and two of the three
-examples used in the motivation come from the [Using SIMD in
+Most of this is implemented in `stdsimd` and can be used on nightly today via
+the `std::simd` module. The `stdsimd` crate is an effort started by @burntsushi
+to put the `rust-lang-nursery/simd` crate into a state suitable for
+stabilization. The `rust-lang-nursery/simd` crate was mainly developed by @huonw
+and IIRC it is heavily-inspired by Dart's SIMD which is from where the `f32x4`
+naming scheme comes from. This RFC has been heavily inspired by Dart, and two of
+the three examples used in the motivation come from the [Using SIMD in
 Dart](https://www.dartlang.org/articles/dart-vm/simd) article written by John
-McCutchan.
+McCutchan. Some of the key ideas of this RFC come from LLVM's design, which was
+originally inspired by GCC's vector extensions, which was probably inspired by
+something else.
+
+Or in other words: to the author's best knowledge, this RFC does not contain any
+really novel ideas. Instead, it only draws inspriation from previous designs
+that have withstood the test of time, and it adapts these designs to Rust.
 
 # Unresolved questions
 [unresolved]: #unresolved-questions