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[huf] Add generic C versions of the fast decoding loops

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Add generic C versions of the fast decoding loops to serve architectures
that don't have an assembly implementation. Also allow selecting the C
decoding loop over the assembly decoding loop through a zstd
decompression parameter `ZSTD_d_disableHuffmanAssembly`.

I benchmarked on my Intel i9-9900K and my Macbook Air with an M1 processor.
The benchmark command forces zstd to compress without any matches, using
only literals compression, and measures only Huffman decompression speed:

```
zstd -b1e1 --compress-literals --zstd=tlen=131072 silesia.tar
```

The new fast decoding loops outperform the previous implementation uniformly,
but don't beat the x86-64 assembly. Additionally, the fast C decoding loops suffer
from the same stability problems that we've seen in the past, where the assembly
version doesn't. So even though clang gets close to assembly on x86-64, it still
has stability issues.

| Arch    | Function       | Compiler     | Default (MB/s) | Assembly (MB/s) | Fast (MB/s) |
|---------|----------------|--------------|----------------|-----------------|-------------|
| x86-64  | decompress 4X1 | gcc-12.2.0   |         1029.6 |          1308.1 |      1208.1 |
| x86-64  | decompress 4X1 | clang-14.0.6 |         1019.3 |          1305.6 |      1276.3 |
| x86-64  | decompress 4X2 | gcc-12.2.0   |         1348.5 |          1657.0 |      1374.1 |
| x86-64  | decompress 4X2 | clang-14.0.6 |         1027.6 |          1659.9 |      1468.1 |
| aarch64 | decompress 4X1 | clang-12.0.5 |         1081.0 |             N/A |      1234.9 |
| aarch64 | decompress 4X2 | clang-12.0.5 |         1270.0 |             N/A |      1516.6 |
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Nick Terrell
2023-01-25 13:47:51 -08:00
committed by Nick Terrell
parent f3255bfeff
commit 8957fef554
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@@ -107,7 +107,12 @@ typedef enum {
* If set: Don't use assembly implementations
* If unset: Allow using assembly implementations
*/
HUF_flags_disableAsm = (1 << 4)
HUF_flags_disableAsm = (1 << 4),
/**
* If set: Don't use the fast decoding loop, always use the fallback decoding loop.
* If unset: Use the fast decoding loop when possible.
*/
HUF_flags_disableFast = (1 << 5)
} HUF_flags_e;