Just for clarities sake and so that if a future implementation is
added we remember to add the check.
{
const struct cpu_features* cpu_features = __get_cpu_features ();
+ /* This function uses the `pcmpstri` sse4.2 instruction which can be
+ slow on some CPUs. This normally would be guarded by a
+ Slow_SSE4_2 check, but since there is no other optimized
+ implementation its best to keep it regardless. If an optimized
+ fallback is added add a X86_ISA_CPU_FEATURE_ARCH_P (cpu_features,
+ Slow_SSE4_2) check. */
if (CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P (cpu_features, SSE4_2))
return OPTIMIZE (sse42);