avcodec/jpeg2000: replace naive pow call with smarter exp2fi
pow is a very wasteful function for this purpose. A low hanging fruit would be simply to replace with exp2f, and that does yield some speedup. However, there are 2 drawbacks of this: 1. It does not exploit the integer nature of the argument. 2. (minor) Some platforms lack a proper exp2f routine, making benefits available only to non broken libm. 3. exp2f does not solve the same issue that plagues pow, namely terrible worst case performance. This is a fundamental issue known as the "table-maker's dilemma" recognized by Prof. Kahan himself and subsequently elaborated and researched by many others. All this is clear from benchmarks below. This exploits the IEEE-754 format to get very good performance even in the worst case for integer powers of 2. This solves all the issues noted above. Function tested with clang usan over [-1000, 1000] (beyond range of relevance for this, which is [-255, 255]), patch itself with FATE. Benchmarks obtained on x86-64, Haswell, GNU-Linux via 10^5 iterations of the pow call, START/STOP, and command ffplay ~/samples/jpeg2000/chiens_dcinema2K.mxf. Low number of runs also given to prove the point about worst case: pow: 216270 decicycles in pow, 1 runs, 0 skips 110175 decicycles in pow, 2 runs, 0 skips 56085 decicycles in pow, 4 runs, 0 skips 29013 decicycles in pow, 8 runs, 0 skips 15472 decicycles in pow, 16 runs, 0 skips 8689 decicycles in pow, 32 runs, 0 skips 5295 decicycles in pow, 64 runs, 0 skips 3599 decicycles in pow, 128 runs, 0 skips 2748 decicycles in pow, 256 runs, 0 skips 2304 decicycles in pow, 511 runs, 1 skips 2072 decicycles in pow, 1022 runs, 2 skips 1963 decicycles in pow, 2044 runs, 4 skips 1894 decicycles in pow, 4091 runs, 5 skips 1860 decicycles in pow, 8184 runs, 8 skips exp2f: 134140 decicycles in pow, 1 runs, 0 skips 68110 decicycles in pow, 2 runs, 0 skips 34530 decicycles in pow, 4 runs, 0 skips 17677 decicycles in pow, 8 runs, 0 skips 9175 decicycles in pow, 16 runs, 0 skips 4931 decicycles in pow, 32 runs, 0 skips 2808 decicycles in pow, 64 runs, 0 skips 1747 decicycles in pow, 128 runs, 0 skips 1208 decicycles in pow, 256 runs, 0 skips 952 decicycles in pow, 512 runs, 0 skips 822 decicycles in pow, 1024 runs, 0 skips 765 decicycles in pow, 2047 runs, 1 skips 722 decicycles in pow, 4094 runs, 2 skips 693 decicycles in pow, 8190 runs, 2 skips exp2fi: 2740 decicycles in pow, 1 runs, 0 skips 1530 decicycles in pow, 2 runs, 0 skips 955 decicycles in pow, 4 runs, 0 skips 622 decicycles in pow, 8 runs, 0 skips 477 decicycles in pow, 16 runs, 0 skips 368 decicycles in pow, 32 runs, 0 skips 317 decicycles in pow, 64 runs, 0 skips 291 decicycles in pow, 128 runs, 0 skips 277 decicycles in pow, 256 runs, 0 skips 268 decicycles in pow, 512 runs, 0 skips 265 decicycles in pow, 1024 runs, 0 skips 263 decicycles in pow, 2048 runs, 0 skips 263 decicycles in pow, 4095 runs, 1 skips 260 decicycles in pow, 8191 runs, 1 skips Reviewed-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanagadde@gmail.com>
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