This is mostly work towards enabling the __KERNEL_SSE__ option to start using SIMD operations for vector math operations. This 4.1 kernel performes about 8% faster with that option but overall is still slower than without the option. WITH_CYCLES_OPTIMIZED_KERNEL_SSE41 is the cmake flag for testing this kernel. Alignment of int3, int4, float3, float4 to 16 bytes seems to give a slight 1-2% speedup on tested systems with the current kernel already, so is enabled now.
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