I guess the author is unaware of Accelerate.framework, the vector library that has shipped with Mac OS since Jaguar.

Heh... I just spent 5 minutes looking at the repo, wondering the same thing. (I was a dev on the performance team at Apple) ;-)

Were the authors of Accelerate.framework unaware of the word Accelerate, which has shipped with the English language since the 1500s?

Overlaps in naming happen, especially when we all want to choose simple and catchy words like "Accelerate."

	▲	dhosek 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Damn you for making me look in the OED thinking surely there’s an earlier usage of the word given it’s Latin roots and seeing the first citation as 1535.