The convention used by libjpeg:
type * variable;
is not very common anymore, because it looks too much like
multiplication. Some (particularly C++ programmers) prefer to tuck the
pointer symbol against the type:
type* variable;
to emphasize that a pointer to a type is effectively a new type.
However, this can also be confusing, since defining multiple variables
on the same line would not work properly:
type* variable1, variable2; /* Only variable1 is actually a
pointer. */
This commit reformats the entirety of the libjpeg-turbo code base so
that it uses the same code formatting convention for pointers that the
TurboJPEG API code uses:
type *variable1, *variable2;
This seems to be the most common convention among C programmers, and
it is the convention used by other codec libraries, such as libpng and
libtiff.
Full-color compression speedups relative to libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2:
2.8 GHz Intel Xeon W3530, Linux, 64-bit: 2.2-18% (avg. 9.5%)
2.8 GHz Intel Xeon W3530, Linux, 32-bit: 10-25% (avg. 17%)
2.3 GHz AMD A10-4600M APU, Linux, 64-bit: 4.9-17% (avg. 11%)
2.3 GHz AMD A10-4600M APU, Linux, 32-bit: 8.8-19% (avg. 15%)
3.0 GHz Intel Core i7, OS X, 64-bit: 3.5-16% (avg. 10%)
3.0 GHz Intel Core i7, OS X, 32-bit: 4.8-14% (avg. 11%)
2.6 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 5050e:
Performance-neutral (give or take a few percent)
Full-color compression speedups relative to IPP:
2.8 GHz Intel Xeon W3530, Linux, 64-bit: 4.8-34% (avg. 19%)
2.8 GHz Intel Xeon W3530, Linux, 32-bit: -19%-7.0% (avg. -7.0%)
Refer to #42 for discussion. Numerous other approaches were attempted,
but this one proved to be the most performant across all platforms.
This commit also fixes#3 (works around, really-- the clang-compiled version
of jchuff.c still performs 20% worse than its GCC-compiled counterpart, but
that code is now bypassed by the new SSE2 Huffman algorithm.)
Based on:
2cb4d4133036c94e050d
