RE: Improve CRC32C performance on SSE4.2

Devulapalli, Raghuveer <raghuveer.devulapalli@intel.com>

From: "Devulapalli, Raghuveer" <raghuveer.devulapalli@intel.com>

To: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>

Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "Shankaran, Akash" <akash.shankaran@intel.com>

Date: 2025-02-20T18:23:56Z

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Include _mm512_zextsi128_si512() in AVX-512 configure probes.
- ccd5bc93fdfe 18.0 landed
Properly fix AVX-512 CRC calculation bug
- 43da394304fb 18.0 landed
Workaround code generation bug in clang
- f83f14881c7a 18.0 landed
Compute CRC32C using AVX-512 instructions where available
- 3c6e8c123896 18.0 landed
Inline CRC computation for small fixed-length input on x86
- e2809e3a1015 18.0 landed
Be more paranoid in configure's checks for CRC and POPCNT intrinsics.
- fdb5dd6331e3 18.0 cited

> Now, there is no equivalent on MSVC and workarounds are fragile [1].
> Maybe we could only assert initialization happened for the backend and for
> frontend either
> - add a couple manual initializations to to the frontend programs where we don't
> want to lose performance for non-gcc/clang.
> - require CRC on x86-64 MSVC since Windows 10 is EOL soon, going by Thomas
> M.'s earlier findings on popcount (also SSE4.2) [2]
> 
> The first is less risky but less tidy.

Agree, let me think about this but not sure if I have any useful suggestions here. MSVC is unfortunately not my strong suit :/ 

Raghuveer