Optimize partitioning with AVX-512 VBMI2 instructions (supersedes #4625) #4637
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This pull request supersedes #4625. The previous PR was closed to reorganize commits and make the history cleaner.
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This update improves the performance of partitioning by leveraging AVX-512 VBMI2 instructions. The optimization requires building FAISS with
-DFAISS_OPT_LEVEL=avx512_spr. Runningbenchs/bench_partition.pyshows a significant performance gain over the existing implementation.benchs/bench_partition.pyon AWS c7i.4xlarge instance.