Add int8 fallback kernel for older Arm CPUs that don't support UDOT #544
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This uses a sequence of instructions to emulate UDOT using widening multiplies and pairwise adds.
In the process the helpers for instantiating
GemmExecutor
with different kernels were refactored into a generic trait to make it easier to exercise each of the available kernels for a given set of input and output types.With the changes on this branch I was able to successfully run the Whisper example on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (Quad-core Arm Cortex A53, 512MB RAM) using the base and tiny models, at ~0.9x real time for base and ~2.1x for tiny.