ARM Strlen from Godbolt

benchmark/atoi-corpus.h

@@ -127,12 +127,21 @@ struct CorpusStringLength {
 #define AVX2_STRLEN_CORPUS_X_LIST /* nothing */
 #endif
 
+#if ZOO_CONFIGURED_TO_USE_NEON()
+#define NEON_STRLEN_CORPUS_X_LIST \
+    X(ZOO_NEON, zoo::neon_strlen)
+#else
+#define NEON_STRLEN_CORPUS_X_LIST /* nothing */
+#endif
+
+
 #define STRLEN_CORPUS_X_LIST \
     X(LIBC_STRLEN, strlen) \
     X(ZOO_STRLEN, zoo::c_strLength) \
     X(ZOO_NATURAL_STRLEN, zoo::c_strLength_natural) \
     X(GENERIC_GLIBC_STRLEN, STRLEN_old) \
-    AVX2_STRLEN_CORPUS_X_LIST
+    AVX2_STRLEN_CORPUS_X_LIST \
+    NEON_STRLEN_CORPUS_X_LIST
 
 #define X(Typename, FunctionToCall) \
     struct Invoke##Typename { int operator()(const char *p) { return FunctionToCall(p); } };

benchmark/atoi.cpp

@@ -325,3 +325,52 @@ STRLEN_old (const char *str)
 	}
     }
 }
+
+
+#if ZOO_CONFIGURED_TO_USE_NEON()
+
+#include <arm_neon.h>
+
+namespace zoo {
+
+/// \note uses the key technique of shifting by 4 and narrowing from 16 to 8 bit lanes in
+/// aarch64/strlen.S at
+/// https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/aarch64/strlen.S;h=ab2a576cdb5665e596b791299af3f4abecb73c0e;hb=HEAD
+std::size_t neon_strlen(const char *str) {
+    const uint8x16_t zero = vdupq_n_u8(0);
+    size_t offset = 0;
+    uint8x16_t data;
+    auto [alignedBase, misalignment] = blockAlignedLoad(str, &data);
+
+    auto compareAndConvertResultsToNibbles = [&]() {
+        auto cmp = vceqq_u8(data, zero);
+        // The result looks like, in hexadecimal digits, like this:
+        // [ AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, FF, GG, HH, ... ] with each
+        // variable A, B, ... either 0xF or 0x0.
+        // instead of 16x8 bit results, we can see that as
+        // 8 16 bit results like this
+        // [ AABB, CCDD, EEFF, GGHH, ... ]
+        // If we shift out a nibble from each element (shift right by 4):
+        // [ ABB0, CDD0, EFF0, GHH0, ... ]
+        // Narrowing from 16 to eight, we would get
+        // [ AB, CD, EF, GH, ... ]
+        auto straddle8bitLanePairAndNarrowToBytes = vshrn_n_u16(cmp, 4);
+        return vget_lane_u64(vreinterpret_u64_u8(straddle8bitLanePairAndNarrowToBytes), 0);
+    };
+    auto nibbles = compareAndConvertResultsToNibbles();
+    auto misalignmentNibbleMask = (~uint64_t(0)) << (misalignment * 4);
+    nibbles &= misalignmentNibbleMask;
+    for(;;) {
+        if(nibbles) {
+            auto trailingZeroBits = __builtin_ctz(nibbles);
+            auto nonNullByteCount = trailingZeroBits / 4;
+            return alignedBase + offset + nonNullByteCount - str;
+        }
+        alignedBase += sizeof(uint8x16_t);
+        memcpy(&data, alignedBase, sizeof(uint8x16_t));
+        nibbles = compareAndConvertResultsToNibbles();
+    }
+}
+
+}
+#endif

benchmark/atoi.h

@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ std::size_t c_strLength_natural(const char *s);
 std::size_t avx2_strlen(const char* str);
 #endif
 
+#if ZOO_CONFIGURED_TO_USE_NEON()
+std::size_t neon_strlen(const char* str);
+#endif
+
 }
 
 std::size_t

inc/zoo/pp/platform.h

@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 #define ZOO_CONFIGURED_TO_USE_AVX() 0
 #endif
 
+#if (defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__ARM_NEON__)) && (defined(__aarch64__) || defined(_M_ARM64))
+#define ZOO_CONFIGURED_TO_USE_NEON() 1
+#else
+#define ZOO_CONFIGURED_TO_USE_NEON() 0
+#endif
+
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
 #define MSVC_EMPTY_BASES __declspec(empty_bases)
 #else