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Commit aa8f8522 authored by Geza Lore's avatar Geza Lore
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Optimize vp9_highbd_block_error_8bit assembly.

A new version of vp9_highbd_error_8bit is now available which is
optimized with AVX assembly. AVX itself does not buy us too much, but
the non-destructive 3 operand format encoding of the 128bit SSEn integer
instructions helps to eliminate move instructions. The Sandy Bridge
micro-architecture cannot eliminate move instructions in the processor
front end, so AVX will help on these machines.

Further 2 optimizations are applied:

1. The common case of computing block error on 4x4 blocks is optimized
as a special case.
2. All arithmetic is speculatively done on 32 bits only. At the end of
the loop, the code detects if overflow might have happened and if so,
the whole computation is re-executed using higher precision arithmetic.
This case however is extremely rare in real use, so we can achieve a
large net gain here.

The optimizations rely on the fact that the coefficients are in the
range [-(2^15-1), 2^15-1], and that the quantized coefficients always
have the same sign as the input coefficients (in the worst case they are
0). These are the same assumptions that the old SSE2 assembly code for
the non high bitdepth configuration relied on. The unit tests have been
updated to take this constraint into consideration when generating test
input data.

Change-Id: I57d9888a74715e7145a5d9987d67891ef68f39b7
parent 9897e1c2
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