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Update release notes and doxygen for 1.1.0 release

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=== v1.1.0 === (5 December 2011)
This is a major new release of the compiler, with significant additions to
language functionality and capabilities. It includes a number of small
language syntax changes that will require modification of existing
programs. These changes should generally be straightforward and all are
steps toward eliminating parts of ispc syntax that are incompatible with
C/C++. See
http://ispc.github.com/ispc.html#updating-ispc-programs-for-changes-in-ispc-1-1
for more information about these changes.
ispc now fully supports pointers, including pointer arithmetic, implicit
conversions of arrays to pointers, and all of the other capabilities of
pointers in C. See http://ispc.github.com/ispc.html#pointer-types for more
information about pointers in ispc and
http://ispc.github.com/ispc.html#function-pointer-types for information
about function pointers in ispc.
Reference types are now declared with C++ syntax (e.g. "const float &foo").
ispc now supports 64-bit addressing. For performance reasons, this
capability is disabled by default (even on 64-bit targets), but can be
enabled with a command-line flag:
http://ispc.github.com/ispc.html#selecting-32-or-64-bit-addressing.
This release features new parallel "foreach" statements, which make it
easier in many instances to map program instances to data for data-parallel
computation than the programIndex/programCount mechanism:
http://ispc.github.com/ispc.html#parallel-iteration-statements-foreach-and-foreach-tiled.
Finally, all of the system's documentation has been significantly revised.
The documentation of ispc's parallel execution model has been rewritten:
http://ispc.github.com/ispc.html#the-ispc-parallel-execution-model, and
there is now a more specific discussion of similarities and differences
between ispc and C/C++:
http://ispc.github.com/ispc.html#relationship-to-the-c-programming-language.
There is now a separate FAQ (http://ispc.github.com/faq.html), and a
Performance Guide (http://ispc.github.com/perfguide.html).
=== v1.0.12 === (20 October 2011)
This release includes a new "double-pumped" 8-wide target for SSE2,