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Clang does a poor job of optimizing the GEBP microkernel on 32-bit ARM,
leading to excessive 16-byte register spills, slowing down basic f32
matrix multiplication by approx 50%.
By specializing `gebp_traits`, we can eliminate the register spills.
Volatile inline ASM both acts as a barrier to prevent reordering and
enforces strict register use. In a simple f32 matrix multiply example,
this modification reduces 16-byte spills from 109 instances to zero,
leading to a 1.5x speed increase (search for `16-byte Spill` in the
assembly in https://godbolt.org/z/chsPbE).
This is a replacement of !379. See there for further discussion.
Also moved `gebp_traits` specializations for NEON to
`Eigen/src/Core/arch/NEON/GeneralBlockPanelKernel.h` to be alongside
other NEON-specific code.
Fixes #2138.
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Antonio Sanchez