This allows the Neon intrinsics code to be built successfully (albeit
likely with reduced run-time performance) with Xcode 5.0-6.2
(iOS/AArch64) and Android NDK < r19 (AArch32). Note that Xcode 5.0-6.2
will not build the Armv8 GAS code without gas-preprocessor.pl, and no
version of Xcode will build the Armv7 GAS code without
gas-preprocessor.pl, so we always use the full Neon intrinsics
implementation by default with macOS and iOS builds.
Auto-detecting the completeness of the compiler's set of Neon intrinsics
also allows us to more intelligently set the default value of
NEON_INTRINSICS, based on the values of HAVE_VLD1*. This is a
reasonable, albeit imperfect, proxy for whether a compiler has a full
and optimal set of Neon intrinsics. Specific notes:
- 64-bit RGB-to-YCbCr color conversion
does not use any of the intrinsics in question, regresses with GCC
- 64-bit accurate integer forward DCT
uses vld1_s16_x3(), regresses with GCC
- 64-bit Huffman encoding
uses vld1q_u8_x4(), regresses with GCC
- 64-bit YCbCr-to-RGB color conversion
does not use any of the intrinsics in question, regresses with GCC
- 64-bit accurate integer inverse DCT
uses vld1_s16_x3(), regresses with GCC
- 64-bit 4x4 inverse DCT
uses vld1_s16_x3(). I did not test this algorithm in isolation, so
it may in fact regress with GCC, but the regression may be hidden by
the speedup from the new SIMD-accelerated upsampling algorithms.
- 32-bit RGB-to-YCbCr color conversion:
uses vld1_u16_x2(), regresses with GCC
- 32-bit accurate integer forward DCT
uses vld1_s16_x3(), regression irrelevant because there was no
previous implementation
- 32-bit accurate integer inverse DCT
uses vld1_s16_x3(), regresses with GCC
- 32-bit fast integer inverse DCT
does not use any of the intrinsics in question, regresses with GCC
- 32-bit 4x4 inverse DCT
uses vld1_s16_x3(). I did not test this algorithm in isolation, so
it may in fact regress with GCC, but the regression may be hidden by
the speedup from the new SIMD-accelerated upsampling algorithms.
Presumably when GCC includes a full and optimal set of Neon intrinsics,
the HAVE_VLD1* tests will pass, and the full Neon intrinsics
implementation will be enabled automatically.
The previous AArch32 and AArch64 GAS implementations are retained by
default when using GCC, in order to avoid a performance regression. The
intrinsics implementation can be forced on or off using the new
NEON_INTRINSICS CMake variable.
