Previously we split the vectors in half to allow the two halves to be any extended then concatenated the results back together.
This patch instead instead extends the v16i8 sse algorithm to extend half of each 128-bit lane using punpcklbw/punpckhbw. Multiplies all the low half lanes and high half lanes together in separate operations. Then merges the half lane results back together using packuswb.
Unfortunately, some of the cases in vector-reduce-mul.ll regress because we aren't narrowing the vector width of the multiplies as we reduce. The splitting was somewhat making up for that before by causing halves to be discarded after the split.
This code is longer but does 4 256-bit loads. The original code did 8 128-bit loads folded into the zero extends.