* an interface for SYCL buffers to behave as a non-dereferenceable pointer
* an interface for placeholder accessor to behave like a pointer on both host and device
1. Fix buggy pcmp_eq and unit test for half types.
2. Add unit test for pselect and add specializations for SSE 4.1, AVX512, and half types.
3. Get rid of FIXME: Implement faster pnegate for half by XOR'ing with a sign bit mask.
This makes both the small and huge argument cases faster because:
- for small inputs this removes the last pselect
- for large inputs only the reduction part follows a scalar path,
the rest use the same SIMD path as the small-argument case.
The reinterpret_casts used in ptranspose(PacketBlock<Packet8cf,4>&)
ptranspose(PacketBlock<Packet8cf,8>&) don't appear to be working
correctly. They're used to convert the kernel parameters to
PacketBlock<Packet8d,T>& so that the complex number versions of
ptranspose can be written using the existing double implementations.
Unfortunately, they don't seem to work and are responsible for 9 unit
test failures in the AVX512 build of tensorflow master. This commit
fixes the issue by manually initialising PacketBlock<Packet8d,T>
variables with the contents of the kernel parameter before calling
the double version of ptranspose, and then copying the resulting
values back into the kernel parameter before returning.