[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: [cairo] Cairo performance comparison, 770 / N800 / PXA-320
From: Daniel Amelang daniel.amelang at gmail.comDate: Tue Jan 16 03:53:10 EET 2007
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On 1/13/07, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > We have all sorts of funny hardware at the office, so I thought I'd > make a quick run of cairo-perf with the Cairo 1.3.10 snapshot and see > how they relate to each other. > ... > N800 is naturally faster than 770, but I didn't expect the xlib > backend to have so big differences between the two. Yea, if it were just hardware, I would think that our image surface would be getting about the same boost as the X side. Clearly it's not. So, the X versions are clearly different. Hmmm....6.6.3 vs. 1.1.99.3 I can't find much info about what that 6.6.3 version is all about. Plus, who knows what xserver-xomap specific optimizations Nokia has been up to. You know, the OMAP 2420 has ARM v6 SIMD and a PowerVR (!), so maybe the xomap on the N800 takes advantage of some of that extra power. If not, I may have found my future class project for my embedded software class :) > > For the cairo audience there's the question of the tessellation > process, can it really be so fast on the PXA-320 or is there a bug > somewhere that twists the results? What could be so good in PXA-320 > (or not-good on the other devices) that the results are so drastic? If I remember correctly, the tessellator performs a lot of integer div/mod, which is dreadfully slow on OMAP ARM due to lack of hardware support. Plus, much of the arithmetic is performed on 64-bit integers, which is also much slower than 32-bit on OMAP IIRC. So, if the PXA-320 ARM doesn't have either of the two limitations (I have no idea, but it is a very different ARM implementation), you should expect to see a healthy speedup. Although 80x is pretty drastic. Side note: the N800 has VFP, so we should have seen a large performance improvement for FP-heavy cairo perf tests, like the radial stuff. But I'm only seeing ~2x improvement. Anyone know what's going here? Another side note: did you run cairo-test on these platforms? I've been uneasy about cairo on ARM since that fellow last month reported the strange diagonal line problem that we never resolved. Dan
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