My v16 experimental patches were a bit messy, so I've organized an experimental series that applies cumulatively, to try to trace the effects of various things.
v17-0001 is the same as v14. 0002 is a stripped-down implementation of Amit's chunk idea for multibyte, and it's pretty good on x86. On Power8, not so much. 0003 and 0004 are shot-in-the-dark guesses to improve it on Power8, with some success, but end up making x86 weirdly slow, so I'm afraid that could happen on other platforms as well.
v14 still looks like the safe bet for now. It also has the advantage of using the same function both in and out of the fastpath, which will come in handy when moving it to src/port as the fallback for SSE.
Power8, gcc 4.8:
HEAD:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed16 | mixed8
---------+-------+-------+---------+--------
2944 | 1523 | 871 | 1473 | 1509
v17-0001:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed16 | mixed8
---------+-------+-------+---------+--------
888 | 607 | 179 | 777 | 1328
v17-0002:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed16 | mixed8
---------+-------+-------+---------+--------
1017 | 718 | 156 | 1213 | 2138
v17-0003:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed16 | mixed8
---------+-------+-------+---------+--------
1205 | 662 | 180 | 767 | 1256
v17-0004:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed16 | mixed8
---------+-------+-------+---------+--------
1085 | 660 | 224 | 868 | 1369
Macbook x86, clang 12:
HEAD:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed16 | mixed8
---------+-------+-------+---------+--------
974 | 691 | 370 | 456 | 526
v17-0001:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed16 | mixed8
---------+-------+-------+---------+--------
674 | 346 | 78 | 309 | 504
v17-0002:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed16 | mixed8
---------+-------+-------+---------+--------
516 | 324 | 78 | 331 | 544
v17-0003:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed16 | mixed8
---------+-------+-------+---------+--------
621 | 537 | 323 | 413 | 602
v17-0004:
chinese | mixed | ascii | mixed16 | mixed8
---------+-------+-------+---------+--------
576 | 439 | 154 | 557 | 915
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