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Open in hackernews

86 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread)

https://github.com/ashtonsix/perf-portfolio/tree/main/bytepack
25•ashtonsix•2h ago

Comments

Retr0id•58m ago
I tried to run the benchmark on my M1 Pro macbook, but the "baseline" is written with x86 intrinsics and won't compile.

Are the benchmark results in the README real? (The README itself feels very AI-generated)

Looking at the makefile, it tries to link the x86 SSE "baseline" implementation and the NEON version into the same binary. A real headscratcher!

Edit: The SSE impl gets shimmed via simd-everywhere, and the benchmark results do seem legit (aside from being slightly apples-to-oranges, but that's unavoidable)

Asmod4n•48m ago
Maybe this could help you: https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde/issues/1099
Retr0id•45m ago
But this project isn't using simd-everywhere. I'd like to reproduce the results as documented in the README
guipsp•32m ago
Look at the parent dir. I agree it is a bit confusing
Retr0id•27m ago
Ah! Yup, that works, I can compile the binary. I get an "Illegal instruction" error when I run it but that's probably just because M1 doesn't support some of the NEON instructions. I retract my implicit AI-slop accusations.
Retr0id•22m ago
Results from M1 Pro (after setting CPU=native in the makefile): https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/e3cde76e4dab2758ec4...
ashtonsix•16m ago
Thank you so much for attempting a reproduction! (I posted this on Reddit and most commenters didn't even click the link)

For the baseline you need SIMDe headers: https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde/tree/master/simde. These alias x86 intrinsics to ARM intrinsics. The baseline is based on the previous State-of-The-Art (https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2137) which happens to be x86-based; using SIMDe to compile was the highest-integrity way I could think of to compare with the previous SOTA.

Note: M1 chips specifically have notoriously bad small-shift performance, so the benchmark results will be very bad on your machine. M3 partially fixed this, M4 fixed completely. My primary target is server-class rather than consumer-class hardware so I'm not too worried about this.

The benchmark results were cpy-pasted from the terminal. The README prose was AI generated from my rough notes (I'm confident when communicating with other experts/researchers, but less-so with communication to a general audience).

danlark1•39m ago
Great work!

Popular narrative that NEON does not have a move mask alternative. Some time ago I published an article to simulate popular bit packing use cases with NEON with 1-2 instructions. This does not include unpacking cases but can be great for real world applications like compare+find, compare+iterate, compare+test.

https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/servers-and-...