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Requires SSE 4.1

It appears that pyarrow requires a CPU with SSE 4.1 due to the PINSRQ instruction:

$ objdump -S /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pyarrow/lib.cpython-312-x86_64-linux-gnu.so | grep pinsrq
   2a8de:	66 48 0f 3a 22 c0 01 	pinsrq $0x1,%rax,%xmm0
   2ad78:	66 48 0f 3a 22 c0 01 	pinsrq $0x1,%rax,%xmm0
   2b896:	66 48 0f 3a 22 c0 01 	pinsrq $0x1,%rax,%xmm0
   2b96b:	66 48 0f 3a 22 c0 01 	pinsrq $0x1,%rax,%xmm0
   2ba16:	66 48 0f 3a 22 c0 01 	pinsrq $0x1,%rax,%xmm0
   2bb40:	66 48 0f 3a 22 c0 01 	pinsrq $0x1,%rax,%xmm0
   2d621:	66 48 0f 3a 22 c0 01 	pinsrq $0x1,%rax,%xmm0
...

The first PINSRQ instruction gets called right at the module import. In case the CPU does not support SSE 4.1:

$ python -c "import pyarrow"
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

This is also an issue for the upstream wheel: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20848#issuecomment-2100043806

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