Re: Simplifying specing/testing/implementation work

Cool! Love to be proved wrong!

Cheers,
Jussi

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Raymond Toy <rtoy@google.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Jussi Kalliokoski <
> jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Obviously SIMD code is faster than addition in JS now, for example. And
>> yes, IIR filter is a type of a convolution, but I don't think it's possible
>> to write an efficient IIR filter algorithm using a convolution engine —
>> after all, a convolution engine should be designed to deal with a FIRs. Not
>> to mention that common IIR filters have 4 (LP, HP, BP, N) kernels, which
>> would be really inefficient for a FastConvolution algorithm, even if it
>> supported FIR. And as far as IIR filter performance goes, I think SIMD
>> instructions offer very little usefulness in IIR algorithms, since they're
>> so linear.
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>  https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75528 says that adding SIMD
> gives a 45% improvement.
>
> Ray
>

Received on Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:30:16 UTC