Vectors for kernels: masks and select, shuffles and byte lookup, dot_add, @cpu and cpu_has; --cpu native on Nix

- comparisons of vectors give masks (boolxN): select(m, a, b), m.any/all/count, & | ^ !;
  f32x8(list, i, fill) and v.store_part(list, i) for the end of a list (masked load/store)
- v.shuffle(constant lanes), v.lo(), v.hi(), concat(a, b), table.lookup(indices):
  pshufb / vpshufb on x86 (SSSE3 and up), tbl on ARM64 (checked in the assembly, LLVM 18 and 21)
- acc.dot_add(a, b): i32 lanes gain 4 byte products each, exactly; vpdpbusd with AVX-VNNI or AVX-512 VNNI,
  usdot/sdot/udot on ARM64, the sum written out elsewhere (pmaddwd); run here with all three paths agreeing
- @cpu("avx2,fma") fn: LLVM target-features for one function (+evex512 for AVX-512, which LLVM 18+ needs);
  cpu_has("avx2"): CPUID + XGETBV on x86, hwcaps on Linux ARM64, sysctl on macOS; a wide vector can't be passed
  between functions with different @cpu (its registers differ), and the compiler says so
- the compiler asks clang which features --cpu means (its predefined macros, cached), so dot_add picks the instruction
- Nix's clang wrapper dropped -march=native in nix-shell (reproduced): finch tells it NIX_ENFORCE_NO_NATIVE=0, shell.nix too,
  and warns if --cpu native still made no difference

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Psc42moPLwP43Cmb9oZqSR
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// expect: shuffle(...) takes lane numbers written in the code
fn main() {
v := f32x4(1.0)
k := 2
print(v.shuffle(k, 0, 1, 3))
}