We found that movemask is not used properly or consumes too much CPU.
This effort helps to optimize the movemask emulation on ARM.
For level 8-9 we saw 3-5% improvements. For level 10 we say 1.5%
improvement.
The key idea is not to use pure movemasks but to have groups of bits.
For rowEntries == 16, 32 we are going to have groups of size 4 and 2
respectively. It means that each bit will be duplicated within the group
Then we do AND to have only one bit set in the group so that iteration
with lowering bit `a &= (a - 1)` works as well.
Also, aarch64 does not have rotate instructions for 16 bit, only for 32
and 64, that's why we see more improvements for level 8-9.
vshrn_n_u16 instruction is used to achieve that: vshrn_n_u16 shifts by
4 every u16 and narrows to 8 lower bits. See the picture below. It's
also used in
[Folly](https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/c5702590080aa5d0e8d666d91861d64634065132/folly/container/detail/F14Table.h#L446).
It also uses 2 cycles according to Neoverse-N{1,2} guidelines.
64 bit movemask is already well optimized. We have ongoing experiments
but were not able to validate other implementations work reliably faster.
This commit avoids checking whether a hashtable write is safe in two of the
three match-found paths in `ZSTD_compressBlock_fast_noDict_generic`. This pro-
duces a ~0.5% speed-up in compression.
A comment in the code describes why we can skip this check in the other two
paths (the repcode check and the first match check in the unrolled loop).
A downside is that in the new position where we make this check, we have not
yet computed `mLength`. We therefore have to avoid writing *possibly* dangerous
positions, rather than the old check which only avoids writing *actually*
dangerous positions. This leads to a miniscule loss in ratio (remember that
this scenario can only been triggered in very negative levels or under incomp-
ressibility acceleration).
Partial, Meson-only implementation of #2976 for non-MSVC builds.
Due to the prevalence of private symbol reuse, linking to a shared
library is simply utterly unreliable, but we still want to defer to the
shared library for installable applications. By linking to both, we can
share symbols where possible, and statically link where needed.
This means we no longer need to manually track every file that needs to
be extracted and reused.
The flip side is that MSVC completely does not support this, so for MSVC
builds we just link to a full static copy even where
-Ddefault_library=shared.
As a side benefit, by using library inclusion rather than including
extra explicit object files, the zstd program shrinks in size slightly
(~4kb).
These need to be explicitly included as we use their private symbols,
but we don't need to recompile them when we can reuse the existing
objects.
Minus 7 compile steps.
The poolTests program already linked to libzstd, and later to
libtestcommon with included libzstd objects. So this was redundant.
Minus 4 compile steps.
Adopt the more standard Usage: formatting style
List short and long options alongside where available
Print lists as a table
Use command style description
Newer less versions appear to have changed how stderr
and stdout are showing error messages. hardcode the
expected behavior to make the tests pass with any less version.
Also set locale to C so that the strings are matching.
- As referenced by Nick Terrelln ~ the ZSTD maintainer in the linux kernel, making zstd_reset_cstream() functionally identical to ZSTD_resetCStream() would be the perfect way to fix the warning without touching any core functions or breaking other parts of the code.
Suggested-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyber Knight <cyberknight755@gmail.com>
Danila Kutenin