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Adding a 512-bit EVEX version of strstr. The algorithm works as follows:
(1) We spend a few cycles at the begining to peek into the needle. We
locate an edge in the needle (first occurance of 2 consequent distinct
characters) and also store the first 64-bytes into a zmm register.
(2) We search for the edge in the haystack by looking into one cache
line of the haystack at a time. This avoids having to read past a page
boundary which can cause a seg fault.
(3) If an edge is found in the haystack we first compare the first
64-bytes of the needle (already stored in a zmm register) before we
proceed with a full string compare performed byte by byte.
Benchmarking results: (old = strstr_sse2_unaligned, new = strstr_avx512)
Geometric mean of all benchmarks: new / old = 0.66
Difficult skiptable(0) : new / old = 0.02
Difficult skiptable(1) : new / old = 0.01
Difficult 2-way : new / old = 0.25
Difficult testing first 2 : new / old = 1.26
Difficult skiptable(0) : new / old = 0.05
Difficult skiptable(1) : new / old = 0.06
Difficult 2-way : new / old = 0.26
Difficult testing first 2 : new / old = 1.05
Difficult skiptable(0) : new / old = 0.42
Difficult skiptable(1) : new / old = 0.24
Difficult 2-way : new / old = 0.21
Difficult testing first 2 : new / old = 1.04
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
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