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The existing code applied a 6-tap filter with 0's on either end. We're already paying the branch penalty to avoid computing the two extra columns needed as input to this filter. We might as well save time computing the filter as well. This reduces the inner loop from 21 instructions to 16, the number of loads per iteration from 4 to 1, and the number of multiplies from 7 to 4. The gain in overall decoding performance, however, is small (less than 1%). This change also means we now valgrind clean on ARMv6, which is its real purpose. The errors reported here were valgrind's fault (it does not detect that 0 times an uninitialized value is initialized), but Julian Seward says it would slow down valgrind considerably to make such checks. Speeding up libvpx rather, even by a small amount, seems a much better idea if only to enable proper valgrind checking of the rest of the codec. Change-Id: Ifb376ea195e086b60f61daf1097d8910c4d8ff16
vpx Multi-Format Codec SDK
README - 19 May 2010
Welcome to the WebM VP8 Codec SDK!
COMPILING THE APPLICATIONS/LIBRARIES:
The build system used is similar to autotools. Building generally consists of
"configuring" with your desired build options, then using GNU make to build
the application.
1. Prerequisites
* All x86 targets require the Yasm[1] assembler be installed.
* All Windows builds require that Cygwin[2] be installed.
* Building the documentation requires PHP[3] and Doxygen[4]. If you do not
have these packages, you must pass --disable-install-docs to the
configure script.
[1]: http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm
[2]: http://www.cygwin.com
[3]: http://php.net
[4]: http://www.doxygen.org
2. Out-of-tree builds
Out of tree builds are a supported method of building the application. For
an out of tree build, the source tree is kept separate from the object
files produced during compilation. For instance:
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../libvpx/configure <options>
$ make
3. Configuration options
The 'configure' script supports a number of options. The --help option can be
used to get a list of supported options:
$ ../libvpx/configure --help
4. Cross development
For cross development, the most notable option is the --target option. The
most up-to-date list of supported targets can be found at the bottom of the
--help output of the configure script. As of this writing, the list of
available targets is:
armv5te-linux-rvct
armv5te-linux-gcc
armv5te-symbian-gcc
armv5te-wince-vs8
armv6-darwin-gcc
armv6-linux-rvct
armv6-linux-gcc
armv6-symbian-gcc
armv6-wince-vs8
iwmmxt-linux-rvct
iwmmxt-linux-gcc
iwmmxt-wince-vs8
iwmmxt2-linux-rvct
iwmmxt2-linux-gcc
iwmmxt2-wince-vs8
armv7-linux-rvct
armv7-linux-gcc
mips32-linux-gcc
ppc32-darwin8-gcc
ppc32-darwin9-gcc
ppc64-darwin8-gcc
ppc64-darwin9-gcc
ppc64-linux-gcc
x86-darwin8-gcc
x86-darwin8-icc
x86-darwin9-gcc
x86-darwin9-icc
x86-linux-gcc
x86-linux-icc
x86-solaris-gcc
x86-win32-vs7
x86-win32-vs8
x86_64-darwin9-gcc
x86_64-linux-gcc
x86_64-solaris-gcc
x86_64-win64-vs8
universal-darwin8-gcc
universal-darwin9-gcc
generic-gnu
The generic-gnu target, in conjunction with the CROSS environment variable,
can be used to cross compile architectures that aren't explicitly listed, if
the toolchain is a cross GNU (gcc/binutils) toolchain. Other POSIX toolchains
will likely work as well. For instance, to build using the mipsel-linux-uclibc
toolchain, the following command could be used (note, POSIX SH syntax, adapt
to your shell as necessary):
$ CROSS=mipsel-linux-uclibc- ../libvpx/src/configure
In addition, the executables to be invoked can be overridden by specifying the
environment variables: CC, AR, LD, AS, STRIP, NM. Additional flags can be
passed to these executables with CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and ASFLAGS.
5. Configuration errors
If the configuration step fails, the first step is to look in the error log.
This defaults to config.err. This should give a good indication of what went
wrong. If not, contact us for support.
SUPPORT
This library is an open source project supported by its community. Please
please email webm-users@webmproject.org for help.