[Vm-dev] ARMv8 BitBLT speedups provided by RPi/Ben Avison

[Marcel Taeumel]

:-O

+1 !!! :-)

I haven't looked into it. Would be nice if it remained compatible with upstream. There is no pull request yet.

Best,
Marcel
Am 30.04.2021 06:38:37 schrieb tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:

Our friends in Cambridge (Real Cambridge, not Backup Cambridge) have spent a nice chunk of money to bring the ARM32 bitblt speedups they provided in '14/5/6 into the ARMv8 world. Quite a few microbenchmarks covering the tests Ben did (and he wrote a testing framework that ran some 10s of thousands of tests) are improved by an order of magnitude, some by 30X and one by 57X !

All the code to date is pushed to
https://github.com/bavison/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/Ben
with the latest version of the test harnesses at
https://github.com/bavison/SqueakBitBltTest

Look for items changed in the last few days ie 25th april or later. I haven't had a chance to do more than glance as yet. I *suspect* Ben has manually edited the generated BitBltPlugin.c file, which will mean doing some diffing and back-porting into Slang. Maybe.

I, for one, welcome our new v8 blit overlords.

tim
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