[cairo] [PATCH] SSE2 patch for pixman

[André Tupinambá]

Hi,

Do you know? cairo-perf with 10000 iterations took about 13 hours in
P4!!! Well, I had so many free time that's finally reinstall the Linux
in my Core2 Quad machine.

In attach has the results of cairo-perf, with 10000 iterations, for
MMX and SSE2 fast-paths. There are two versions, one with Mobile
Pentium 4 3.2GHz and another with Core2 Quad 2.4GHz processor.

There are a small slowdown with test paint_similar_rgba_source-256,
but only in P4 machine, I'll investigate it. In another side, the top
speedup with Core2 machine was *only* 2.5x (compared with 8x in P4
one). I'll investigate it too.

But for me this patch is the final one.

Regards,

André Tupinambá

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:13 PM, André Tupinambá <andrelrt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>  We finnish the code for SSE2 fast-paths in pixman. In attach we have
>  the patch and two perfs, with only 50 iterations. I'll run overnight
>  the perf with 10000 iterations with MMX and SSE2 fast-paths and will
>  send tomorrow morning. I saw a slowdown in paint_image_rgba_source,
>  I'll investigate this now  with VTune analyser. Well, I only translate
>  the MMX code to SSE2 one, I'll start the optimization process now ;)
>
>  I ran my tests always with Mobile Pentium 4 3.2Ghz, so I don't know
>  how the code performs with Core2 or AMD processors. Could Someone post
>  the perf results with this processors?
>
>  BTW, Rodrigo Kumpera is starting another proof of concept for dynamic
>  code generation for use with pixman compose functions. Pedro Lamarão
>  is running new OpenMP experiments too. Probably we will translate this
>  code again in a near future, maybe with threads :)
>
>  Best Regards,
>
>  André Tupinambá
>
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