On Mon, 23 May 2005 01:50:24 +0200
Thom Johansen <thomj@pvv.ntnu.no> wrote:

> > The only optimization I've been able to do is write some asm functions
> > to implement the 32x32 bit arithmetic using the Coldfire MAC
> > instructions. That improved playbay speed slightly to about 24-25%. The
> > other advantage is full 32 bit precision -- i.e. no need to use the
> > lower accuracy mode.
> I'm very curious as to how you performed these optimisations. Did you
> implement them in assembler? Did you utilize the MAC instructions
> with the parallell load? Is there some way I can see your code?

What I did define the multiplication and cross-products MULT3x, XPROD3x,
etc. as assembly inlined functions in an asm_mcf5249.h include (i.e.
analogous to the stock Tremor asm_arm.h). I didn't use the parallel
loads as these functions aren't used with sequencial memory accesses.
Maybe I am missing something here?

I'm not at home at the moment, but I can send you the header file if
you're interested.

> > BTW, I also tested commmenting out mdct_backwards: playback improves to
> > 40-45%, so clearly something else must be optimized...
> Have you tried putting essential data in IRAM? This often gives huge
> performance boosts. As for other parts of the code to optimise, I
> haven't looked much at Tremor yet, only thing I can think of off the
> top of my head is that the windowing can be done faster using
> the EMAC unit.

Sorry, I don't known what the IRAM is--- could you point me to some
description?

> Feel free to pop by #rockbox on irc.freenode.net, if you've got any
> questions or want to discuss your optimisation work. I'm the only person
> involved with codec optimisations at the time, and go by the
> nick 'preglow' there.

OK, I might get back to you later.

Pedro

-- 
Pedro Vasconcelos, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews
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