[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/9] avcodec/gdv: Replace divisions by shifts in rescale()

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 06:19:01PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> On 8/5/2018 5:29 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Divisions tend to be slower than shifts unless the compiler optimizes them out.
> > And some of these are in inner loops.
> 
> This patch makes the code slightly less readable, IMO. What compiler
> doesn't optimize out an integer division by 2 into a right shift?
> Is this part of the cause for the timeouts you mention in patch 9/9? Do
> those run on builds with compiler optimizations disabled then?

Iam running them with -O1
i dont know if gcc succeeded optimizing the /2 to a plain shift. (it has
to proof that the value is positive as nicolas said)
Its more a habit of not doing potentially slow operations in inner loops.

As in "always favor shift over division when possibly" vs. "spend time
proofing that the speedloss either doesnt matter or that every supported
compiler can optimize it"



> 
> The other patches in this set look good since they effectively simplify
> and optimize the code for all scenarios (memcpy vs loop, reduced amount
> of iterations, etc). But this one is trying to work around a decision
> made by a compiler in a non real world scenario with specific runtime
> constrains.
> Does this timeout still happen if you apply the entire set except for
> this patch?

Ill have to try but i dont think its wise to leave divisions in inner
loops where they are easy avoidable.
also makes greping for such suboptimal code harder, if anyone tried that
as in "divisions in a loop"

but ye, if people prefer to leave that, we can do that (assuming it
isnt slower), should i test this ?

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