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optimization: peel align-head and unroll body to 64 bytes
Benchmarks indicated that obfuscating multiple bytes already gives an order of magnitude speed-up, but:
* GCC still emitted scalar code;
* Clang’s auto-vectorized loop ran on the slow unaligned-load path.
Fix contains:
* peeling the misaligned head enabled the hot loop starting at an 8-byte address;
* `std::assume_aligned<8>` tells the optimizer the promise holds - required to keep Apple Clang happy;
* manually unrolling the body to 64 bytes enabled GCC to auto-vectorize.
Note that `target.size() > KEY_SIZE` condition is just an optimization, the aligned and unaligned loops work without it as well - it's why the alignment calculation still contains `std::min`.
> C++ compiler .......................... GNU 14.2.0
| ns/byte | byte/s | err% | ins/byte | cyc/byte | IPC | bra/byte | miss% | total | benchmark
|--------------------:|--------------------:|--------:|----------------:|----------------:|-------:|---------------:|--------:|----------:|:----------
| 0.03 | 32,464,658,919.11 | 0.0% | 0.50 | 0.11 | 4.474 | 0.08 | 0.0% | 5.29 | `ObfuscationBench`
> C++ compiler .......................... Clang 20.1.7
| ns/byte | byte/s | err% | ins/byte | cyc/byte | IPC | bra/byte | miss% | total | benchmark
|--------------------:|--------------------:|--------:|----------------:|----------------:|-------:|---------------:|--------:|----------:|:----------
| 0.02 | 41,231,547,045.17 | 0.0% | 0.30 | 0.09 | 3.463 | 0.02 | 0.0% | 5.47 | `ObfuscationBench`
Co-authored-by: Hodlinator <[email protected]>
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