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  2. MDEV-21698

optimize implementations of byte load/store macros for non-X86 little-endian architectures

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      The integer load/store macros defined in include/my_byteorder.h have different implementations for x86[_64] (see include/byte_order_generic_x86.h and include/byte_order_generic_x86_64.h) and all other architectures (include/byte_order_generic.h).

      Which is unfortunate, because that discriminates little-endian architectures that are not X86, in particular ARM64.

      The distinction should really be between big-endian and little-endian architectures. Which is the way it is currently implemented in MySQL 8.0, where they have replaced most legacy *int*korr() and int*store() macros with memcpy()-based inline functions, see https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/536ea313a6a71f9ed87f14d95e03e04e40ff5605

      The rationale for using memcpy() looks a little inconclusive to me. But it works almost fine, i.e. the compiler is usually smart enough to convert memcpy into the most efficient implementation on all little-endian architectures.

      This is a request to:

      1. Use the same optimized implementations of load/store macros on all little-endian architectures, including ARM64, as used on X86;
      2. Optimize the current X86 implementations even further for a few macros

      I'm not yet sure if I'm allowed to share benchmark results and contribute code. But I'm attaching a Godbolt link as a testcase that demonstrates the optimization opportunities. Just build it and run on any available ARM64 and X86 machines:

      https://godbolt.org/z/DaFK47

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            kaamos Alexey Kopytov
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