Rockbox

Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by lostlogic - 2005-12-28
Last edited by linusnielsen - 2005-12-28

using inline assembly, I’ve nearly halved the time
needed for lcd_update on the whole screen on the H340.
Thanks to amiconn for his help and tips on this. The
first 0-7 bytes and the last 0-7 bytes are still
transferred the same way they were before, but the bulk
of the data is transfered 8 words at a time using 4
registers for storage. Using a simple test plugin
which displays start and end times this showed 40s for
1000 updates vs. 21s for 1000 updates after the patch.

Further optimization suggested by amiconn was to
reverse the write order to avoid 1 swap per 2 words,
there is also space for improvement by writing more of
the function in assembly. I don’t think the gains
would be worth it to do the leading and trailing
unaligned bytes in assembly, but it is certainly an option.