Based on the aarch64 asm. CPU cycle counts on cortex-a9 compared to
gcc 4.8.2:
before: 475 decicycles in get_cabac_noinline, 67106035 runs, 2829 skips
after: 393 decicycles in get_cabac_noinline, 67106474 runs, 2390 skips
Overall speedup is above 2%. Code generated by clang 3.4 is slower on
the same hardware and the relative change is a little larger.
Based on the x86 branchless get_cabac asm. get_cabac_noinline() gets
approximately 20% faster (no cycle counts available) compared to clang
from Xcode 5.1 beta5. More than 6% faster overall. A part of the overall
speedup might be explained by additional inlining of get_cabac().
Initially written by Guillaume Martres <smarter@ubuntu.com> as a GSoC
project. Further contributions by the OpenHEVC project and other
developers, namely:
Mickaël Raulet <mraulet@insa-rennes.fr>
Seppo Tomperi <seppo.tomperi@vtt.fi>
Gildas Cocherel <gildas.cocherel@laposte.net>
Khaled Jerbi <khaled_jerbi@yahoo.fr>
Wassim Hamidouche <wassim.hamidouche@insa-rennes.fr>
Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
Jan Ekström <jeebjp@gmail.com>
Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
Yusuke Nakamura <muken.the.vfrmaniac@gmail.com>
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de>
Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
Signed-off-by: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
The reason is this is easier for PIC code (in particular on darwin...).
Keep the old names as pointers (static in cabac_functions.h so gcc
knows these are just immediate offsets) so the c code can nicely stay the same
(alternatively could use offsets directly in the functions needing the
tables). This should produce the same code as before with non-pic and better
code (confirmed) with pic.
The assembly uses the new table but still won't work for PIC case.
Signed-off-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje@gmail.com>
This fixes standalone compilation of some decoders with --disable-optimizations.
cabac.h defines some inline functions that use symbols from cabac.c. Without
optimizations these inline functions are not eliminated and linking fails with
references to non-existing symbols.
Splitting the inline functions off into their own header and only #including
it in the places where the inline functions are used allows #including cabac.h
from anywhere without ill effects.
Janne Grunau
Guillaume Martres
Jason Garrett-Glaser
Roland Scheidegger
Ronald S. Bultje
Diego Biurrun