VectorizationBase.jl is deprecated

[asinghvi17]

cf. https://github.com/JuliaSIMD/VectorizationBase.jl/issues/106#issuecomment-1976755164. It looks like VectorizationBase is a dependency here, and from a cursory glance of the codebase it seems pretty ingrained into it. How much effort would it be to switch out, given that VectorizationBase has demonstrated segfaults on Julia v1.11?

We might end up using AccurateArithmetic in https://github.com/JuliaGeo/GeometryOps.jl, and would like to avoid as many dependency issues as possible 😄.