This is ~2x faster for y not an integer on Haswell+GCC, and should generally be faster due to the fact that anyway powf essentially does this under the hood.
Note that there are some accuracy differences, that should generally be negligible. In particular, FATE still passes on this platform. Results in ~ 7% speedup in aac encoding with -march=native, Haswell+GCC. before: ffmpeg -i sin.flac -acodec aac -y sin_new.aac 6.05s user 0.06s system 104% cpu 5.821 total after: ffmpeg -i sin.flac -acodec aac -y sin_new.aac 5.67s user 0.03s system 105% cpu 5.416 total This is also faster than an alternative approach that pulls in powf, gets rid of the crufty NaN checks and other special cases, exploits knowledge about the intervals, etc. This of course does not exclude smarter approaches; just suggests that there would need to be significant work on this front of lower utility than searches for hotspots elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajja...@gmail.com> --- libavcodec/aacenc_utils.h | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libavcodec/aacenc_utils.h b/libavcodec/aacenc_utils.h index 56e3462..b7f80c6 100644 --- a/libavcodec/aacenc_utils.h +++ b/libavcodec/aacenc_utils.h @@ -121,7 +121,10 @@ static inline float find_form_factor(int group_len, int swb_size, float thresh, if (s >= ethresh) { nzl += 1.0f; } else { - nzl += powf(s / ethresh, nzslope); + if (nzslope == 2.f) + nzl += (s / ethresh) * (s / ethresh); + else + nzl += expf(logf(s / ethresh) * nzslope); } } if (e2 > thresh) { -- 2.7.2 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel