The x86/ARM split asked for on macOS already exists: BitShuffleBlock.h (fbc507839) sends
the per-block transform to bitshuffle_hperf everywhere except aarch64 with NEON, where it
uses the classic bitshuffle's NEON path, and both call sites go through it. Nothing new is
needed for Apple Silicon - clang --target=arm64-apple-macos defines __aarch64__ and
__ARM_NEON exactly as aarch64 Linux does, both vendored files compile to arm64 Mach-O
objects, the seam resolves to bshuf_(un)trans_bit_elem and bshuf_using_NEON() is 1. The
header now says why the switch is a preprocessor one: a universal build compiles it once
per architecture, which a CMake-time answer cannot follow.
What had never happened is the NEON code actually running. It has now, under
qemu-aarch64 in the project's cross image: 504 blocks (elem 1/2/4/8, 8 elements up to the
128 kB block, odd multiples of 8, random and detector-like data) plus 54 whole-buffer
bitshuffle/LZ4 streams with element counts that are no multiple of 8 or of the block. The
output is byte-identical (same md5) across aarch64 NEON, aarch64 without NEON (seam falls
back to hperf's portable code), x86 hperf AVX2 via ifunc, hperf SSE2, hperf portable
fallback, and classic SSE2 / AVX2 / scalar; every implementation decodes every other.
Throughput, one thread on a loaded Zen 3, 16/32-bit, GB/s encode/decode: hperf AVX2
~9-12/~10-11, classic AVX2 ~8/~5.5-8, classic SSE2 ~4-5/~4.5-5.5, hperf portable fallback
auto-vectorised ~2.8/~5, not vectorised ~1/~1.8. Classic 128-bit SIMD beating hperf's
fallback is the x86 stand-in for the choice the seam makes on ARM; no ARM hardware was
available, so the NEON-vs-fallback ranking on a real core is still unmeasured.
The one thing that would have failed on aarch64 is the Bshuf_SSE test, which required
SSE2 outright. It now accepts NEON as well, which also makes it the check that a Mac or
DGX Spark build did not end up on the scalar path.
Not built: no CMake configure or jfjoch_test build was run on this machine (busy); the
test expression was compiled and run standalone on x86 only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5957b15493dfd0cc8a18fb780a18c2573a6eccde)
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