From: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:56:22 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Micro optimizations for the amp filter.
X-Git-Tag: v0.4.0~50^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=36d1c3d162c687cd11c05e88a93fa1de78f06eab;hp=36d1c3d162c687cd11c05e88a93fa1de78f06eab

Micro optimizations for the amp filter.

Use memcpy in the special case amp==0 (no amplification) and optimize the code in
the performance-critical loop. Intrestingly, using the likely()/unlikely() macros made the
code slower.

Results (three runs on identical input data on a 32bit x86 machine under Linux, gcc-4.4.0):

old with --amp 3:
        0m0.776s 0m0.790s 0m0.812s, avg: 792
new with --amp 3:
        0m0.456s 0m0.492s 0m0.477s, avg: 475
speedup: 1.67

old with --amp 0:
        0m0.791s 0m0.808s 0m0.810s, avg: 803
new with --amp 0:
        0m0.100s 0m0.103s 0m0.094s, avg: 99
speedup: 8.1
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