[ros-dev] DIB code generator

[Ge van Geldorp]

I've committed the first version of a DIB Blt code generator (the generator
is in tools/gendib, the file it generates ends up in
subsys/win32k/dib/dib16gen.c). For now, it only generates code for 16bpp
destination surfaces, other depths will follow.
I've decided on a compromise, only code for named rops will be generated.
This keeps the size of the code reasonable (win32k.sys grew from 952k to
1128k, an increase of 176k or 20%), while still speeding up the most used
rop codes considerably. For example, the speed of PATINVERT increased by a
factor 7. Optimized code was already present for SRCCOPY and PATCOPY, so the
generated code isn't faster for these cases.
We totally smoke the Windows XP DIB engine Blt routines now for 16bpp.

Gé van Geldorp.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.com 
> [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Ge van Geldorp
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:03
> To: 'ReactOS Development List'
> Subject: [ros-dev] DIB code generator
> 
> One of the things which has bothered me a bit is the code 
> duplication we have in our DIB engine (subsys/win32k/dib). 
> Most of the BitBlt routines in there are very similar. With 
> the recent interest in optimizations a bunch of new (almost 
> identical) routines were added. Don't get me wrong, I'm not 
> saying that adding those optimizations was a bad idea, I'm 
> just pointing out that we have a lot of code duplication.
> 
> There are 256 possible ROP codes, we support 1bpp, 4bpp, 
> 8bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp and 32bpp, so in theory there could be 
> 1536 routines with basically the same structure. I've been 
> playing around with the idea to write a code generator which 
> would generate the source code for those routines. That would 
> cut down on the duplicated source code and associated 
> maintenance problems (you only need to change the code 
> generator) while still allowing optimized code for each 
> individual ROP code.
> 
> Just to give you an idea what such a code generator would 
> look like, I've attached my first attempt. Please note that 
> it doesn't really try to optimize the generated code yet, 
> it's just to give an impression. The code generated (16bpp 
> only atm) is rather large, you can get it from 
> ftp://ftp.geldorp.nl/pub/ReactOS/dib16gen.c if you like (or 
> compile the code generator ("gcc -o gendib gendib.c") and run it).
> 
> A possible problem is that the generated code is quite large. 
> When using the generated 16bpp code, size of win32k.sys 
> increases by about 350kb.
> Extrapolating this for all bpps, it would mean that 
> win32k.sys would triple in size.
> 
> So, I'm wondering what you guys are thinking. Should we 
> basically trade memory for speed? Problem is that I can't 
> quantify the speed increase at the moment.
> 
> Gé van Geldorp.
>