An extension of D19978, this patch replaces the default BITREVERSE evaluation of individual bit masks+shifts with block mask+shifts when we have integer elements of power-of-2 bits in size.
After calling BSWAP to reverse the order of the constituent bytes (which typically follows a similar approach), every neighbouring 4-bits, 2-bits and finally 1-bit pairs are masked off and swapped over with shifts.
In doing so we can significantly reduce the number of operations required.
If I'm reading this sentence correctly, it should be:
"If we can, perform"