Re: use ARM intrinsics in pg_lfind32() where available

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 4:28 PM John Naylor
<john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Here's the simplest fix I can think of:
>
> /*
> * Exactly like vector8_is_highbit_set except for the input type, so
> it still looks
> * at each _byte_ separately.
> *
> * XXX x86 uses the same underlying type for vectors with 8-bit,
> 16-bit, and 32-bit
> * integer elements, but Arm does not, hence the need for a separate function.
> * We could instead adopt the behavior of Arm's vmaxvq_u32(), i.e. check each
> * 32-bit element, but that would require an additional mask operation on x86.
> */
> static inline bool
> vector32_is_highbit_set(const Vector32 v)
> {
> #if defined(USE_NEON)
> return vector8_is_highbit_set((Vector8) v);
> #else
> return vector8_is_highbit_set(v);
> #endif
> }

Bowerbird just reported the same error, so I went ahead and pushed a
fix with this.

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