`findScalarPos` might do repetitive work, even if using simd. For
example, when searching the string `/abcde/fghijk/lm` for the character
`/`, a 16-byte wide search would yield `1000001000000100` but would only
count the first `1` and re-search the remaining of the string.
When testing locally, the difference was quite significative:
```
count scalar
5737 iterations 522.83us per iterations
0 bytes per iteration
worst: 2370us median: 512us stddev: 107.64us
count v2
38333 iterations 78.03us per iterations
0 bytes per iteration
worst: 713us median: 76us stddev: 10.62us
count scalar v2
99565 iterations 29.80us per iterations
0 bytes per iteration
worst: 41us median: 29us stddev: 1.04us
```
Note that `count v2` is a simpler string search, similar to the
remaining version of the simd approach:
```
pub fn countV2(comptime T: type, haystack: []const T, needle: T) usize {
const n = haystack.len;
if (n < 1) return 0;
var count: usize = 0;
for (haystack[0..n]) |item| {
count += @intFromBool(item == needle);
}
return count;
}
```
Which implies the compiler yields some optimized code for a simpler loop
that is more performant than the `findScalarPos`-based approach, hence
the usage of iterative approach for the remaining of the haystack.
Co-authored-by: StAlKeR7779 <stalkek7779@yandex.ru>
For unwinding purposes, we don't care about unsupported registers. Yet because
we added these rules to the cache entry, we'd later try to evaluate them and
thus fail the unwind attempt for no good reason. They'd also take up cache rule
slots that would be better spent on actually relevant registers.
Note that any attempt to read unsupported registers during unwinding will still
fail the unwind attempt as expected.
The previous version (ported from musl) used bit-by-bit calculations and was slow, but the current version (also ported from musl) uses lookup tables combined with Goldschmidt iterations to significantly improve the speed.
* ELF v1 on powerpc64 is only barely kept on life support in a couple of Linux
distros. I don't anticipate that this will last much longer.
* Most of the Linux world has moved to powerpc64le which requires ELF v2.
* Some Linux distros have even started supporting powerpc64 with ELF v2.
* The BSD world has long since moved to ELF v2.
* We have no actual linking support for ELF v1.
* ELF v1 had confused DWARF register mappings which is becoming a problem in
our DWARF code in std.debug.
It's clear that ELF v1 is on its way out, and we never fully supported it
anyway. So let's not waste any time or energy on it going forward.
closes#5927
FreeBSD doesn't support the same number of platforms as Linux, and even then,
only has usermode emulation for a subset of its supported platforms.
NetBSD's usermode emulation support is apparently just broken at the moment.
The amount of cross compilation required for these tests was too time-consuming
for how much value they added. test-stack-traces now cover these well enough,
especially as we add more exotic machines to the CI fleet to run native tests.
