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DRC d38b4f21ec Optimize ARM64 SIMD code for Cavium ThunderX
Per @ssvb:
ThunderX is an ARM64 chip that dedicates most of its transistor real
estate to providing 48 cores, so each core is not as fast as a result.
Each core is dual-issue & in-order for scalar instructions and has only
a single-issue half-width NEON unit, so the peak throughput is one
128-bit instruction per 2 cycles.  So careful instruction scheduling is
important.  Furthermore, ThunderX has an extremely slow implementation
of ld2 and ld3, so this commit implements the equivalent of those
instructions using ld1.

Compression speedup relative to libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2:
48-core ThunderX (RunAbove ARM Cloud), Linux, 64-bit: 58-85% (avg. 74%)
relative to jpeg-6b: 1.75-2.14x (avg. 1.95x)

Refer to #49 and #51 for discussion.

Closes #51.

This commit also wordsmiths the ChangeLog entry (the ARMv8 SIMD
implementation is "complete" only for compression-- it still lacks some
decompression algorithms, as does the ARMv7 implementation.)

Based on:
9405b5fd03

which is based on:
f561944ff7
962c8ab21f
2016-01-16 02:39:02 -06:00
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