Re: [Geoserver-devel] New community module: a faster png output format

2013-08-12 Thread Phil Scadden
Great work Andrea +1

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Re: [Geoserver-devel] New community module: a faster png output format

2013-08-12 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Very exciting stuff Andrea. +1 as well and very excited to see where it
goes from there.


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Andrea Aime
wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Chris Holmes  wrote:
>
>> This sounds awesome Andrea. Psyched to see what improvements it leads to
>> when plugged in to the whole wms output pipeline.
>>
>
> Eh well, that will depend a lot on the use case.
> If you are trying to paint 3 million road segments into a 256x256 image it
> won't make any difference,
> if you are building a tile cache, considering that the last level of the
> tile cache has often tiles with rather
> sparse information (no much time actually spent loading and painting data)
> it should make a visible difference instead.
>
> It's all a matter of what percentage of time is spent encoding the image,
> compared to the overall processing time, it
> has to be significant to see differences between the various encoders even
> in the end to end GetMap request time.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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Re: [Geoserver-devel] New community module: a faster png output format

2013-08-12 Thread Andrea Aime
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Chris Holmes  wrote:

> This sounds awesome Andrea. Psyched to see what improvements it leads to
> when plugged in to the whole wms output pipeline.
>

Eh well, that will depend a lot on the use case.
If you are trying to paint 3 million road segments into a 256x256 image it
won't make any difference,
if you are building a tile cache, considering that the last level of the
tile cache has often tiles with rather
sparse information (no much time actually spent loading and painting data)
it should make a visible difference instead.

It's all a matter of what percentage of time is spent encoding the image,
compared to the overall processing time, it
has to be significant to see differences between the various encoders even
in the end to end GetMap request time.

Cheers
Andrea

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Re: [Geoserver-devel] New community module: a faster png output format

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Holmes
This sounds awesome Andrea. Psyched to see what improvements it leads to
when plugged in to the whole wms output pipeline.

Doing the PNGJ one sounds like the better route especially if the author
will solve the raster encoding stuff.

Definitely +1 here for a community module.


On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Andrea Aime
wrote:

> Hi,
> during the last couple of months I've spent some spare time investigating
> the PNG
> format and the encoders generating it.
> During the investigation some facts popped up:
> * the JDK own encoder performance is horrible
> * the CLib one (provided by ImageIO native libs) does a lot better, but
> still leaves something
>   to be desired and generally speaking builds larger PNGs
>
> The JDK one is so slow because it rigged to provided the maximum possible
> compression,
> and it spends a lot of effort getting it, without giving any possibility
> to configure it.
> The thing is, that much effort normally just results in a size that is
> less than 10% smaller than
> more relaxed approaches, especially with the vector maps that GeoServer is
> normally producing.
>
> Given the above, and also considering that often people just do not
> install the ImageIO native
> extensions, and on some platforms (Win64, OSX) they are simply not
> available, I've setup
> to build a faster pure java encoder, concentrating most of my work to make
> sure we do the minimum
> amount of pixel scans and array copies before writing out the PNG file
> (something that apparently
> all existing encoders are rather bad at).
>
> The results are good, today I have two solutions which are both faster
> than the JDK one
> (by a lot) and normally faster than the CLib native encoder too.
> One is based on a minimal encoder that I wrote (called just NG for the
> moment),
> which is really bare bones, the other one  is based on PNGJ, a open
> source, low level,
> pure java PNG encoder that is fully featured and that I've discovered a
> when the basics
> for the NG encoder were already laid down.
> I've exchanged quite a few mails with the PNGJ author and while at the
> beginning it was visibly
> slower, after some changes it came to be almost on par.
>
> The buffered-image.html file attached contains the results of a pure image
> encoding
> benchmark (the image is ready at the beginning of the banchmark) which
> I've built using Carrot Search Lab's
> JUnit-Benchmarks  (http://labs.carrotsearch.com/junit-benchmarks.html).
> The benchmark encodes images using different types of colors and pixels
> representations,
> ranging from RGB(A) in either bytes or packed ints, grayscale images, and
> paletted ones.
>
> As you can see, either the NG or PNGJ can run circles around the JDK own
> writer (between
> 5 and 10 times times faster and they still have some advantage over the
> CLib one (30-40% faster)
> while building images that are, size wise, in between the CLib encoder and
> the JDK one.
>
> I've also made a benchmark based on sample vector (coming from
> osm-in-a-box) and raster maps
> of different sizes, attached as samples-benchmark.html, in this one I've
> spared the JDK encoder
> the embarassement and just compared clib, ng and pngj.
> As you can see the story is more or less the same, although on raster
> images pngj still needs some
> work to match my own bare bones encoder.
>
> All the code wrote so far is available here under the GPL license:
> https://github.com/aaime/png-experiments
>
> The next step would be to turn this into a WMS output format, directly,
> without the overhead of going
> trough the JAI ImageIO ImageWriter interface, so that's where the
> community module comes into
> the picture.
>
> Generally speaking, if at all possible, I'd like to drop my own encoder in
> favour of PNGJ to lower
> the maintenance overhead and better feature set, hopefully talking a bit
> more with the author will solve also the
> small raster encoding extra cost.
>
> Opinions and feedback welcomed (and of course, votes for the new community
> module)
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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Re: [Geoserver-devel] New community module: a faster png output format

2013-08-11 Thread Andrea Aime
Ah hem,
it seems that to view the charts you also need to place the json files
attached to this mail in the
same folder as the html ones

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[Geoserver-devel] New community module: a faster png output format

2013-08-11 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi,
during the last couple of months I've spent some spare time investigating
the PNG
format and the encoders generating it.
During the investigation some facts popped up:
* the JDK own encoder performance is horrible
* the CLib one (provided by ImageIO native libs) does a lot better, but
still leaves something
  to be desired and generally speaking builds larger PNGs

The JDK one is so slow because it rigged to provided the maximum possible
compression,
and it spends a lot of effort getting it, without giving any possibility to
configure it.
The thing is, that much effort normally just results in a size that is less
than 10% smaller than
more relaxed approaches, especially with the vector maps that GeoServer is
normally producing.

Given the above, and also considering that often people just do not install
the ImageIO native
extensions, and on some platforms (Win64, OSX) they are simply not
available, I've setup
to build a faster pure java encoder, concentrating most of my work to make
sure we do the minimum
amount of pixel scans and array copies before writing out the PNG file
(something that apparently
all existing encoders are rather bad at).

The results are good, today I have two solutions which are both faster than
the JDK one
(by a lot) and normally faster than the CLib native encoder too.
One is based on a minimal encoder that I wrote (called just NG for the
moment),
which is really bare bones, the other one  is based on PNGJ, a open source,
low level,
pure java PNG encoder that is fully featured and that I've discovered a
when the basics
for the NG encoder were already laid down.
I've exchanged quite a few mails with the PNGJ author and while at the
beginning it was visibly
slower, after some changes it came to be almost on par.

The buffered-image.html file attached contains the results of a pure image
encoding
benchmark (the image is ready at the beginning of the banchmark) which I've
built using Carrot Search Lab's
JUnit-Benchmarks  (http://labs.carrotsearch.com/junit-benchmarks.html).
The benchmark encodes images using different types of colors and pixels
representations,
ranging from RGB(A) in either bytes or packed ints, grayscale images, and
paletted ones.

As you can see, either the NG or PNGJ can run circles around the JDK own
writer (between
5 and 10 times times faster and they still have some advantage over the
CLib one (30-40% faster)
while building images that are, size wise, in between the CLib encoder and
the JDK one.

I've also made a benchmark based on sample vector (coming from
osm-in-a-box) and raster maps
of different sizes, attached as samples-benchmark.html, in this one I've
spared the JDK encoder
the embarassement and just compared clib, ng and pngj.
As you can see the story is more or less the same, although on raster
images pngj still needs some
work to match my own bare bones encoder.

All the code wrote so far is available here under the GPL license:
https://github.com/aaime/png-experiments

The next step would be to turn this into a WMS output format, directly,
without the overhead of going
trough the JAI ImageIO ImageWriter interface, so that's where the community
module comes into
the picture.

Generally speaking, if at all possible, I'd like to drop my own encoder in
favour of PNGJ to lower
the maintenance overhead and better feature set, hopefully talking a bit
more with the author will solve also the
small raster encoding extra cost.

Opinions and feedback welcomed (and of course, votes for the new community
module)

Cheers
Andrea

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