rav1d-safe — rav1d fork replacing hand-written asm with safe Rust SIMD

Fork of the rav1d AV1 decoder that swaps ~160k lines of hand-written x86/ARM assembly for safe Rust SIMD intrinsics while targeting within 2x of the asm path.

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