Add PowerPC support (POWER8 VSX + Power Mac G5 AltiVec)#404

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feat: Add POWER8 ppc64le support with scalar I2_S kernels

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feat(power8): add VSX SIMD kernels for I2_S dot products - 10x speedup

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perf(power8): add L3 resident dcbt prefetch for weight tensors

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docs: add POWER8 benchmarks and build instructions to README

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Commits on Jan 31, 2026

feat(g5): add Power Mac G5 big-endian support with GGUF byte-swap

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