This commit adds C and SSE2 optimizations for the encode_mcu_AC_first()
function used in progressive Huffman encoding.
The image used for testing can be retrieved from this page:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/doubling-the-speed-of-jpegtran
All timings done on `Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4870HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz`
clang version is `Apple LLVM version 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.39.2)`
gcc-5 version is `gcc-5 (Homebrew GCC 5.5.0) 5.5.0`
gcc-7 version is `gcc-7 (Homebrew GCC 7.2.0) 7.2.0`
Here are the results in comparison to libjpeg-turbo@293263c using
`time ./jpegtran -outfile /dev/null -progressive -optimise -copy none print_poster_0025.jpg`
C
clang x86_64: +19%
gcc-5 x86_64: +80%
gcc-7 x86_64: +57%
clang i386: +5%
gcc-5 i386: +59%
gcc-7 i386: +51%
SSE2
clang x86_64: +79%
gcc-5 x86_64: +158%
gcc-7 x86_64: +122%
clang i386: +71%
gcc-5 i386: +134%
gcc-7 i386: +135%
Discussion in libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo#46
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