Define compiler-independent byte-swap macros and use them instead of
executing 'rev' via inline assembly code with GCC-compatible compilers
or a slow shift-store sequence with Visual C++.
* This produces identical assembly code with:
- 64-bit GCC 8.4.0 (Linux)
- 64-bit GCC 9.3.0 (Linux)
- 64-bit Clang 10.0.0 (Linux)
- 64-bit Clang 10.0.0 (MinGW)
- 64-bit Clang 12.0.0 (Xcode 12.2, macOS)
- 64-bit Clang 12.0.0 (Xcode 12.2, iOS)
* This produces different assembly code with:
- 64-bit GCC 4.9.1 (Linux)
- 32-bit GCC 4.8.2 (Linux)
- 32-bit GCC 8.4.0 (Linux)
- 32-bit GCC 9.3.0 (Linux)
Since the intrinsics implementation of Huffman encoding is not used
by default with these compilers, this is not a concern.
- 32-bit Clang 10.0.0 (Linux)
Verified performance neutrality
Closes#507
- Use the _M_ARM and _M_ARM64 macros provided by Visual Studio for
compile-time detection of Arm builds, since __arm__ and __aarch64__
are only present in GNU-compatible compilers.
- Neon/intrinsics: Use the _CountLeadingZeros() and
_CountLeadingZeros64() intrinsics provided by Visual Studio, since
__builtin_clz() and __builtin_clzl() are only present in
GNU-compatible compilers.
- Neon/intrinsics: Since Visual Studio does not support static vector
initialization, replace static initialization of Neon vectors with the
appropriate intrinsics. Compared to the static initialization
approach, this produces identical assembly code with both GCC and
Clang.
- Neon/intrinsics: Since Visual Studio does not support inline assembly
code, provide alternative code paths for Visual Studio whenever inline
assembly is used.
- Build: Set FLOATTEST appropriately for AArch64 Visual Studio builds
(Visual Studio does not emit fused multiply-add [FMA] instructions by
default for such builds.)
- Neon/intrinsics: Move temporary buffer allocation outside of nested
loops. Since Visual Studio configures Arm builds with a relatively
small amount of stack memory, attempting to allocate those buffers
within the inner loops caused a stack overflow.
Closes#461Closes#475
The previous AArch64 GAS implementation is retained by default when
using GCC, in order to avoid a performance regression. The intrinsics
implementation can be forced on or off using the new NEON_INTRINSICS
CMake variable. The previous AArch32 GAS implementation has been
removed, since the intrinsics implementation provides the same or better
performance.
