[Pixman] [PATCH] sse2: Using MMX and SSE 4.1

[Søren Sandmann]

Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com> writes:

> This is also a very useful test, but it effectively requires to have
> an alternative double precision implementation for all the pixman
> functionality to be verified. For bilinear scaling it means that at
> least various types of repeats need to be handled, etc. And this
> sounds like a lot of work.

Yeah, I agree that it's a lot of work and that dropping to 7 bits is
easier in the short term.

>
> There are also some alternative variants. For example, allow a custom
> prefix for public symbols in pixman (so that several pixman instances
> can be loaded into test application at the same time). Or even update
> the existing pixman tests to add xlib support and compare the locally
> rendered results with xrender. The latter seems particularly useful,
> because it could be also used for xrender implementation validation in
> various hardware accelerated drivers (and complement/retire
> rendercheck).

Yet another variant is to get the single precision floating point
pipeline working instead of the current 16 bit one, and then useit as
the reference implementation.


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