[Pixman] [PATCH 0/10] Floating point pipeline again

[Søren Sandmann]

Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> writes:

> On 09/26/2012 04:43 PM, Søren Sandmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Here is a new version of the floating point patches. The main changes
>> since last time are:
>> 
>> (a) It is now explicit that the only guarantee wrt. floating point
>>     exceptions is that divide-by-zero is not generated. So if an
>>     application enables for example FP_INVALID, it may crash. It can
>>     safely enablE FP_DIVBYZERO though.
>> 
>> (b) pixman_expand_to_float() is faster. The first version was written
>>     in a way that caused gcc to generate divisions in the inner
>>     loop. The new version avoids that.
>> 
>> Below are the results of some benchmark runs. From top to bottom:
>> 
>> - Regular, unmodified pixman
>> - With all compositing going through the current 16 bpc wide path
>> - With all compositign going through the new floating point wide path
>
> What are the columns?

[test number], [cairo backend], [test name], [min time], [median time], [std variance]

The 2/2 column I believe indicates that the test was run twice and two
of those runs were used in the data gathering (ie., not considered
outliers).


Soren