diff --git a/Ramstack.Globbing/Internal/MemoryHelper.cs b/Ramstack.Globbing/Internal/MemoryHelper.cs
index 2b0330e..72bfadc 100644
--- a/Ramstack.Globbing/Internal/MemoryHelper.cs
+++ b/Ramstack.Globbing/Internal/MemoryHelper.cs
@@ -1,12 +1,25 @@
 using System.Numerics;
 using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
 using System.Runtime.Intrinsics;
+using System.Runtime.Intrinsics.Arm;
 using System.Runtime.Intrinsics.X86;
 
 namespace Ramstack.Globbing.Internal;
 
+/// <summary>
+/// Provides low-level memory scanning helpers for UTF-16 character buffers.
+/// </summary>
 internal static unsafe class MemoryHelper
 {
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Searches for the first occurrence of a character in a UTF-16 buffer.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="s">Pointer to the start of the buffer.</param>
+    /// <param name="e">Pointer to one-past-the-end of the buffer.</param>
+    /// <param name="ch">The character to search for.</param>
+    /// <returns>
+    /// The zero-based index of the first occurrence of <paramref name="ch"/>, or <c>-1</c> if not found.
+    /// </returns>
     [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
     public static int IndexOf(char* s, char* e, char ch)
     {
@@ -45,6 +58,39 @@ public static int IndexOf(char* s, char* e, char ch)
             }
         }
 
+        if (AdvSimd.Arm64.IsSupported && s + Vector128<short>.Count <= e)
+        {
+            for (;;)
+            {
+                var result = AdvSimd.CompareEqual(
+                    Vector128.Create((short)ch),
+                    LoadVector(s));
+
+                var mask = AdvSimd_ExtractMostSignificantBits(result);
+                if (mask != 0)
+                {
+                    var offset = BitOperations.TrailingZeroCount(mask);
+                    return i + offset;
+                }
+
+                s += Vector128<short>.Count;
+                i += Vector128<short>.Count;
+
+                if (s + Vector128<short>.Count <= e)
+                    continue;
+
+                if (s == e)
+                    return -1;
+
+                //
+                // Tail handling via the same SIMD path (no scalar fallback)
+                //
+                var remaining = (int)((nint)e - (nint)s) >>> 1;
+                i = i + remaining - Vector128<short>.Count;
+                s = e - Vector128<short>.Count;
+            }
+        }
+
         for (; s < e; s++, i++)
             if (*s == ch)
                 return i;
@@ -52,6 +98,16 @@ public static int IndexOf(char* s, char* e, char ch)
         return -1;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Searches for the first occurrence of either of two characters in a UTF-16 buffer.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="s">Pointer to the start of the buffer.</param>
+    /// <param name="e">Pointer to one-past-the-end of the buffer.</param>
+    /// <param name="ch1">First character to search for.</param>
+    /// <param name="ch2">Second character to search for.</param>
+    /// <returns>
+    /// The zero-based index of the first occurrence of either character, or <c>-1</c> if neither is found.
+    /// </returns>
     [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
     public static int IndexOfAny(char* s, char* e, char ch1, char ch2)
     {
@@ -92,6 +148,40 @@ public static int IndexOfAny(char* s, char* e, char ch1, char ch2)
             }
         }
 
+        if (AdvSimd.Arm64.IsSupported && s + Vector128<short>.Count <= e)
+        {
+            for (;;)
+            {
+                var source = LoadVector(s);
+                var result = AdvSimd.Or(
+                    AdvSimd.CompareEqual(source, Vector128.Create((short)ch1)),
+                    AdvSimd.CompareEqual(source, Vector128.Create((short)ch2)));
+
+                var mask = AdvSimd_ExtractMostSignificantBits(result);
+                if (mask != 0)
+                {
+                    var offset = BitOperations.TrailingZeroCount(mask);
+                    return i + offset;
+                }
+
+                s += Vector128<short>.Count;
+                i += Vector128<short>.Count;
+
+                if (s + Vector128<short>.Count <= e)
+                    continue;
+
+                if (s == e)
+                    return -1;
+
+                //
+                // Tail handling via the same SIMD path (no scalar fallback)
+                //
+                var remaining = (int)((nint)e - (nint)s) >>> 1;
+                i = i + remaining - Vector128<short>.Count;
+                s = e - Vector128<short>.Count;
+            }
+        }
+
         for (; s < e; s++, i++)
             if (*s == ch1 || *s == ch2)
                 return i;
@@ -99,6 +189,30 @@ public static int IndexOfAny(char* s, char* e, char ch1, char ch2)
         return -1;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Extracts a bitmask representing the most significant bits of each 16-bit lane in a SIMD vector.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="v">Input vector of 16-bit integers.</param>
+    /// <returns>
+    /// A bitmask encoding which lanes have their high bit set.
+    /// </returns>
+    [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
+    private static int AdvSimd_ExtractMostSignificantBits(Vector128<short> v)
+    {
+        var sum = AdvSimd.Arm64.AddAcross(
+            AdvSimd.ShiftLogical(
+                AdvSimd.And(v, Vector128.Create(unchecked((short)0x8000))),
+                Vector128.Create(-15, -14, -13, -12, -11, -10, -9, -8)));
+        return sum.ToScalar();
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Loads a 128-bit vector of UTF-16 characters.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="source">Pointer to the source memory location.</param>
+    /// <returns>
+    /// A vector containing 8 UTF-16 characters.
+    /// </returns>
     [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
     private static Vector128<short> LoadVector(void* source) =>
         Unsafe.ReadUnaligned<Vector128<short>>(source);