I wrote:
> Also, if SSE is accepted into the tree, then the C fallback is only important on platforms like PowerPC64 and Arm64, so we can make the tradeoff by testing those more carefully. I'll test on PowerPC soon.
I got around to testing on POWER8 / Linux / gcc 4.8.5 and found a regression in the mixed2 case in v11. v12 improves that at the cost of some improvement in the ascii case (5x vs. 8x).
master:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed2
---------+-------+-------+--------
2966 | 1525 | 871 | 1474
v11-0001:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed2
---------+-------+-------+--------
1030 | 644 | 102 | 1760
v12-0001:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed2
---------+-------+-------+--------
977 | 632 | 168 | 1113
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