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Commit 87552d54 authored by Ben Avison's avatar Ben Avison Committed by Martin Storsjö
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armv6: Accelerate ff_fft_calc for general case (nbits != 4)


The previous implementation targeted DTS Coherent Acoustics, which only
requires nbits == 4 (fft16()). This case was (and still is) linked directly
rather than being indirected through ff_fft_calc_vfp(), but now the full
range from radix-4 up to radix-65536 is available. This benefits other codecs
such as AAC and AC3.

The implementaion is based upon the C version, with each routine larger than
radix-16 calling a hierarchy of smaller FFT functions, then performing a
post-processing pass. This pass benefits a lot from loop unrolling to
counter the long pipelines in the VFP. A relaxed calling standard also
reduces the overhead of the call hierarchy, and avoiding the excessive
inlining performed by GCC probably helps with I-cache utilisation too.

I benchmarked the result by measuring the number of gperftools samples that
hit anywhere in the AAC decoder (starting from aac_decode_frame()) or
specifically in the FFT routines (fft4() to fft512() and pass()) for the
same sample AAC stream:

              Before          After
              Mean   StdDev   Mean   StdDev  Confidence  Change
Audio decode  2245.5 53.1     1599.6 43.8    100.0%      +40.4%
FFT routines  940.6  22.0     348.1  20.8    100.0%      +170.2%

Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
parent 5c22e8e4
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