The old implementation uses `[[pad_id] * (max_len - len(inst)) + list(inst) for inst in insts]` to pad list sequences. This performs an $O(N \times \text{max\_len})$ list concatenation, creating many intermediate Python lists and stressing the garbage collector, before finally passing the result to `np.array(..., dtype=np.int64)`.
This change updates it to pre-allocate an empty numpy array (`np.full`) and safely populates it using numpy slicing (`padded_insts[i, :l] = inst`). The change results in a ~2x faster performance. This has been verified to be completely logically equivalent to the original un-modified processor output on a comprehensive set of test cases.
* [Intel HPU] add example benchmark scripts for hpu
* Revise the code based on the copilot comments
* update code based on comments
* update ci ops version
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