* Drop ABSL_RANDOM_HWAES_FLAGS compiler flags
Older CPUs that do not have SSE4.1 would crash with the Ruby native gem
due to an illegal instruction exception.
The Abseil random library isn't being used at the moment
(https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/26476), and there's no reason gRPC
needs to force SSE4.1 instructions on all platforms at the moment. There
are other hardware-specific issues that need to be ironed out for this
to work: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/26479
When the `-msse4` compiler flag was enabled, the Abseil code started
using the `pinsrb` instruction:
```
$ elfx86exts abseil-cpp/absl/time/internal/cctz/src/time_zone_libc.o
MODE64 (ret)
CMOV (cmovne)
SSE2 (movdqa)
SSE41 (pinsrb)
SSE1 (movaps)
CPU Generation: Penryn
```
Closes https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/27095
* Revert "Drop ABSL_RANDOM_HWAES_FLAGS compiler flags"
This reverts commit 3b7cc74d39.
* Drop -msse4 compiler flag
Older CPUs that do not have SSE4.1 would crash with the Ruby native gem
due to an illegal instruction exception.
The Abseil random library isn't being used at the moment
(https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/26476), and there's no reason gRPC
needs to force SSE4.1 instructions on all platforms at the moment. There
are other hardware-specific issues that need to be ironed out for this
to work: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/26479
When the `-msse4` compiler flag was enabled, the Abseil code started
using the `pinsrb` instruction:
```
$ elfx86exts abseil-cpp/absl/time/internal/cctz/src/time_zone_libc.o
MODE64 (ret)
CMOV (cmovne)
SSE2 (movdqa)
SSE41 (pinsrb)
SSE1 (movaps)
CPU Generation: Penryn
```
This was previously needed because gcc 4.8 wouldn't compile without the
`-msse4` and `-maes` flags.
However, per
97db2bf7fb
gcc 5.0+ automatically detects whether these options are enabled.
clang still needs `-maes` since including `wmmintrin.h` expects the AES
option to be enabled.
Closes https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/27095
* Ran `2to3` on `tools/buildgen` and the `gen_build_yaml.py` files.
* Updated the invocations of python to be explicitly Python 3.
* Changed the loader in `mako_renderer.py` to allow pickle to find the module for pickling `external_version.Version`
* Added a few open-as-binary to placate readers/writers expecting bytes.
* Hand tweaked the templates to remove `iteritems` and fiddle with encodings.
Partially addresses #24359.