Auto merge of #3084 - RalfJung:deadcode, r=RalfJung

remove some dead code

and add a comment in the AVX test

Author: bors

src/helpers.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-pub mod convert;
-
 use std::cmp;
 use std::iter;
 use std::num::NonZeroUsize;

src/helpers/convert.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 // Ignore everything except x86 and x86_64
 // Any additional target are added to CI should be ignored here
+// (We cannot use `cfg`-based tricks here since the `target-feature` flags below only work on x86.)
 //@ignore-target-aarch64
 //@ignore-target-arm
 //@ignore-target-avr