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: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Before After
Mean StdDev Mean StdDev Change
This function 2653.0 28.5 1108.8 51.4 +139.3%
Overall 17049.5 408.2 15973.0 223.2 +6.7%
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Before After
Mean StdDev Mean StdDev Change
This function 9295.0 114.9 4853.2 83.5 +91.5%
Overall 23699.8 397.6 19285.5 292.0 +22.9%
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This allows masking CPU features with the -cpuflags avconv option
which is useful for testing different optimisations without rebuilding.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
