[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] altivec scaler performance enhancement

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:35:20AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:12:14PM -0500, Alan Curry wrote:
> > Michael Niedermayer writes the following:
> > >
> > >On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:50:56AM -0500, Alan Curry wrote:
> > >> It would be better, I think, to just build the vectors that you're actually
> > >> going to use. Or build them all just once and preserve them in the
> > >> SwsContext, since they are just expanded versions of the v{Lum,Chr}Filter
> > >> that is already in there.
> > >
> > >yes
> > 
> > This is the patch to move the v{Y,C}CoeffsBank vectors into the SwsContext,
> > filling them in just once when the scaler is initialized, instead of building
> > them and freeing them over and over. In my tests, it cuts CPU usage in half
> > or better. Not just the scaler's CPU usage - the usage of the entire mplayer
> > process! One of my tests went from being a 94% CPU hog to 33%.
> 
> Outstanding!  Works like a charm here, I'm seeing 30-50% performance
> improvements.  Michael, OK to commit?

yes, after fixing the indention of the moved code

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Michael