zlib's crc32_combine() is not very efficient. It is faster to re-combine
the buffer using crc32(). It's still substantial amount of work which
could be avoided.
This patch introduces a fast implementation of crc32_combine() which
uses a different algorithm than zlib. It also utilizes intrinsics for
carry-less multiplication instruction to perform the computation faster.
The details of the algorithm can be found in code comments.
Performance results using perf_checksum and second buffer of length 64 KiB:
zlib CRC32 combine: 38'851 ns
libdeflate CRC32: 4'797 ns
fast_crc32_combine(): 11 ns
So the new implementation is 3500x faster than zlib's, and 417x faster than
re-checksumming the buffer using libdeflate.
Tested on i7-5960X CPU @ 3.00GHz
Performance was also evaluated using sstable writer benchmark:
perf_fast_forward --populate --sstable-format=mc --data-directory /tmp/perf-mc \
--value-size=10000 --rows 1000000 --datasets small-part
It yielded 9% improvement in median frag/s (129'055 vs 117'977).
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