RDFTs are full of conventions that vary between implementations.
What I've gone for here is what's most common between
both fftw, avcodec's rdft and what we use, the equivalent of
which is DFT_R2C for forward and IDFT_C2R for inverse. The
other 2 conventions (IDFT_R2C and DFT_C2R) were not used at
all in our code, and their names are also not appropriate.
If there's a use for either, we can easily add a flag which
would just flip the sign on one exptab.
For some unknown reason, possibly to allow reusing FFT's exp tables,
av_rdft's C2R output is 0.5x lower than what it should be to ensure
a proper back-and-forth conversion.
This code outputs its real samples at the correct level, which
matches FFTW's level, and allows the user to change the level
and insert arbitrary multiplies for free by setting the scale option.
This commit rewrites the internal transform code into a constructor
that stitches transforms (codelets).
This allows for transforms to reuse arbitrary parts of other
transforms, and allows transforms to be stacked onto one
another (such as a full iMDCT using a half-iMDCT which in turn
uses an FFT). It also permits for each step to be individually
replaced by assembly or a custom implementation (such as an ASIC).
This sadly required making changes to the code itself,
due to the same context needing to be reused for both versions.
The lookup table had to be duplicated for both versions.
This commit refactors the power-of-two FFT, making it faster and
halving the size of all tables, making the code much smaller on
all systems.
This removes the big/small pass split, because on modern systems
the "big" pass is always faster, and even on older machines there
is no measurable speed difference.
out[lut[i]] = in[i] lookups were 4.04 times(!) slower than
out[i] = in[lut[i]] lookups for an out-of-place FFT of length 4096.
The permutes remain unchanged for anything but out-of-place monolithic
FFT, as those benefit quite a lot from the current order (it means
there's only 1 lookup necessary to add to an offset, rather than
a full gather).
The code was based around non-power-of-two FFTs, so this wasn't
benchmarked early on.
This commit adds support for in-place FFT transforms. Since our
internal transforms were all in-place anyway, this only changes
the permutation on the input.
Unfortunately, research papers were of no help here. All focused
on dry hardware implementations, where permutes are free, or on
software implementations where binary bloat is of no concern so
storing dozen times the transforms for each permutation and version
is not considered bad practice.
Still, for a pure C implementation, it's only around 28% slower
than the multi-megabyte FFTW3 in unaligned mode.
Unlike a closed permutation like with PFA, split-radix FFT bit-reversals
contain multiple NOPs, multiple simple swaps, and a few chained swaps,
so regular single-loop single-state permute loops were not possible.
Instead, we filter out parts of the input indices which are redundant.
This allows for a single branch, and with some clever AVX512 asm,
could possibly be SIMD'd without refactoring.
The inplace_idx array is guaranteed to never be larger than the
revtab array, and in practice only requires around log2(len) entries.
The power-of-two MDCTs can be done in-place as well. And it's
possible to eliminate a copy in the compound MDCTs too, however
it'll be slower than doing them out of place, and we'd need to dirty
the input array.
This patch adds support for arbitrary-point FFTs and all even MDCT
transforms.
Odd MDCTs are not supported yet as they're based on the DCT-II and DCT-III
and they're very niche.
With this we can now write tests.
By itself, this allows 6-point, 10-point and 30-point transforms.
When the 9-point transform is added it allows for 18-point FFT,
and also for a 36-point MDCT (used by MP3).
Required minimal changes to the code so made sense to implement.
FFT and MDCT tested, the output of both was properly rounded.
Fun fact: the non-power-of-two fixed-point FFT and MDCT are the fastest ever
non-power-of-two fixed-point FFT and MDCT written.
This can replace the power of two integer MDCTs in aac and ac3 if the
MIPS optimizations are ported across.
Unfortunately the ac3 encoder uses a 16-bit fixed point forward transform,
unlike the encoder which uses a 32bit inverse transform, so some modifications
might be required there.
The 3-point FFT is somewhat less accurate than it otherwise could be,
having minor rounding errors with bigger transforms. However, this
could be improved later, and the way its currently written is the way one
would write assembly for it.
Similar rounding errors can also be found throughout the power of two FFTs
as well, though those are more difficult to correct.
Despite this, the integer transforms are more than accurate enough.
Simply moves and templates the actual transforms to support an
additional data type.
Unlike the float version, which is equal or better than libfftw3f,
double precision output is bit identical with libfftw3.
