[FFmpeg-devel] H.264 CABAC Decoder on IBM Cell

[Kristian Jerpetjøn]

2009/5/7 Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu>:
> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>>
>> I'm going to blame the fact that the primary core of the Cell (stupidly)
>> doesn't have a barrel shift unit, resulting in variable shifts, such as
>> those in renormalization, being implemented in microcode (and
>> correspondingly being extraordinarily slow).
>>
>> But that's just a guess. ?It needs to be profiled.
>
> Those shifts could all be multiplies if that's faster. But a quick google
> says that PPU sucks at integer multiplies too, just not quite as much as
> shifts.
> c->range could be LUTed, but c->low would take quite a big LUT.

you need to achive a lot more than 2x todays throughput (1080p etc)

In my honest opinion i think the spu thing its a step in the right direction.
It completely offloads the task rather than try to squeeze something
out of something not meant to deliver anything.

The ppu's task in a cell is only meant to be a manager of tasks.
Not a executioner.

And eventually we should aim to offload everything


>
> --Loren Merritt
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