tree e91c64a34d443ebfeed8c2e1aa0f6ef9dd075f66
parent 21f3d5816d5dc3556a3ac9a5c91b915848be254b
author erifan01 <eric.fang@arm.com> 1525680510 +0000
committer Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com> 1536782215 +0000

internal/bytealg: optimize Equal on arm64

Currently the 16-byte loop chunk16_loop is implemented with NEON instructions LD1, VMOV and VCMEQ.
Using scalar instructions LDP and CMP to achieve this loop can reduce the number of clock cycles.
For cases where the length of strings are between 4 to 15 bytes, loading the last 8 or 4 bytes at
a time to reduce the number of comparisons.

Benchmarks:
name                 old time/op    new time/op    delta
Equal/0-8              5.51ns ± 0%    5.84ns ±14%     ~     (p=0.246 n=7+8)
Equal/1-8              10.5ns ± 0%    10.5ns ± 0%     ~     (all equal)
Equal/6-8              14.0ns ± 0%    12.5ns ± 0%  -10.71%  (p=0.000 n=8+8)
Equal/9-8              13.5ns ± 0%    12.5ns ± 0%   -7.41%  (p=0.000 n=8+8)
Equal/15-8             15.5ns ± 0%    12.5ns ± 0%  -19.35%  (p=0.000 n=8+8)
Equal/16-8             14.0ns ± 0%    13.0ns ± 0%   -7.14%  (p=0.000 n=8+8)
Equal/20-8             16.5ns ± 0%    16.0ns ± 0%   -3.03%  (p=0.000 n=8+8)
Equal/32-8             16.5ns ± 0%    15.3ns ± 0%   -7.27%  (p=0.000 n=8+8)
Equal/4K-8              552ns ± 0%     553ns ± 0%     ~     (p=0.315 n=8+8)
Equal/4M-8             1.13ms ±23%    1.20ms ±27%     ~     (p=0.442 n=8+8)
Equal/64M-8            32.9ms ± 0%    32.6ms ± 0%   -1.15%  (p=0.000 n=8+8)
CompareBytesEqual-8    12.0ns ± 0%    12.0ns ± 0%     ~     (all equal)

Change-Id: If317ecdcc98e31883d37fd7d42b113b548c5bd2a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/112496
Reviewed-by: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
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