On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:30:14PM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Christian Robottom Reis
> <k...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 03:54:52PM -0500, Tom Gall wrote:
> >> Hardware used includes the imx53 QuickStart board by freescale and an
> >> intel core 2 duo in my Lenovo T400.
> >>
> >> The results can be found here including both the raw numbers and pretty
> >> graphs.
> >>
> >> https://wiki.linaro.org/TomGall/LibJpeg8
> >
> > Again, wow, thanks for such a thorough analysis. I think this is indeed
> > very good material for discusing with Ubuntu. Do we have a session
> > scheduled with them to talk about this?
> >
> > I have a question: any idea why the gap between 8c and turbo8 is so much
> > more impressive on x86(_64) than on ARM?
>
> Out of curiosity, how much is "much more impressive"? Which case in
> particular has caught your attention?
Sorry; here's the graphs which show where I was surprised to see a 3-4x
gap:
https://wiki.linaro.org/TomGall/LibJpeg8?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Intel-x86_64-3136x2352-Q95-libjpeg8vlibjpeg-turbo.jpg
https://wiki.linaro.org/TomGall/LibJpeg8?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Intel-x86_64-3136x2352-Q75-libjpeg8vlibjpeg-turbo.jpg
https://wiki.linaro.org/TomGall/LibJpeg8?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Intel-x86_64-640x480-Q75-libjpeg8vlibjpeg-turbo.jpg
https://wiki.linaro.org/TomGall/LibJpeg8?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Intel-x86_64-640x480-Q95-libjpeg8vlibjpeg-turbo.jpg
> > Could there be low-hanging fruit left in the NEON codepaths?
>
> Yes, currently missing ARM NEON optimizations for chroma
> upsampling/downsampling and grayscale color conversions definitely
> affect the tjbench results for subsampled formats and grayscale.
>
> Also huffman decoder optimizations (which are C code, not SIMD) in
> libjpeg-turbo seem to be providing only some barely measurable
> improvement on ARM, while huffman speedup is clearly more impressive
> on x86. This gives libjpeg-turbo more points over IJG jpeg on x86 as a
> result.
We should definitely consider these for future work, then. Thanks for
the reply,
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