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Re: [help-GIFT] patch-fu


From: Jonas Lindqvist
Subject: Re: [help-GIFT] patch-fu
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:55:33 +0200

Hi!

I feel an urge to ask some questions... (Perhaps silly, but anyway... I know I could probably find the answers by digging in the code a bit deeper, but I admit I'm lazy...)

* The function gabor_filter, in gabor.c, now uses a fixed array of 65536 doubles, instead of callocing the size indicated by the width and height that are passed as parameters to gabor_filter(...). Very well... Are the width and height always 256, or can they be 128*512 or 2*32768 or whatever?

* I guess that most modern CPUs have some kind of SSE2-ish features that gcc could use, but what would the effect of the patch be for an architecture that lacks it? (Something seriously old, pre MMX, or something else that perhaps one would not use for this application anyway...)

* Wouldn't memset be faster than looping and setting to zero?:
        for (i = 0; i < width*height; i++)
          {
            conv[i]= 0;   /* needs to be zeroed */
        }
and isn't width*height always 65536?




/Jonas





Yet another patch..

This one is a case of "add code to gain speed".

By adding a special case handling of "kernel being tested
is within the borders of the image",you gain speed by not
performing a conditional in the loop, which allows for
gcc 4.1's autovec engine to change your loop to a series
of SSE2 instructions.

Get all that? :)

Anyways, this brings the speed down to ~1.3 on my machine.

the 70-* and 80-* patches have equivilents for convolutions
two and four, i'm just not getting it quite right yet...

I'm also attaching my testing program, so that others can
check my work.

Julia Longtin <address@hidden>
<80-ChangeLog>
<80-FeatureExtraction_gabor.c_move_conditional_and_parallelize.patch>
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