Implement u8 x i8 -> i32 GEMM kernel for x86_64 using AVX2 intrinsics #535
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Add packing functions for kernels that use int8 x int8 -> i32 dot product instruction sequences, and a kernel for x86_64 that uses them with AVX2 intrinsics.
This doesn't include the GEMV kernel. I will add that separately.
This is the "baseline" kernel for x64 for systems that don't support VNNI ("DL Boost") instructions.
Performance numbers on i5-1038NG7 (4 cores) comparing f32 matmul vs int8, excluding gemv. The int8 matmul is now faster, but other quantization overheads mean that eg. int8 ModernBERT is slightly slower than f32.