[Speex-dev] Performance and Optimization

[Greger Burman]

The reasons I have posted these questions are: 1) To find out if Speex can
take advantage of SIMD extensions.
2) To maybe learn from someone with previous experience in optimizing Speex
for moderns x86 architectures before I set off trying all kinds of things on
my own.

See answers inline:
2009/6/15 Tom Grandgent <tom at grandgent.com>

> Why haven't you tried using release build with compiler optimizations?

I just haven't started with optimizing... yet.


>
> It's quite possible that the performance picture could be substantially
> different.  You might end up wasting a lot of time if you do much
> performance analysis or optimization on a debug build.

Yes, you are right and that is not what I'm doing.


> Debug build
> not only has no optimization - it also has extra checks that may have a
> significant performance impact depending on the code.

Possibly, but I have identified the most expensive functions. They are all
from the Speex dll. I believe these will remain the most interesting ones
also in release build with some O-flags.
Someone who is knowledgeable in these functions might know if their impact
can be reduced and what the best practices are.

>
>
> If you want to profile with symbols, you know you can compile a release
> build with symbols, right?  The CodeAnalyst documentation describes
> how to do that with Visual Studio.  (I've done it.)

Ok. thx.

>
>
> Tom
>
> Greger Burman <greger at mobile-robotics.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a question about the overall performance of Speex and what I can
> do
> > to improve it. I'm running Speex Windows x86, Visual C++ EE compiler. I
> will
> > say right away that I've only compiled debug so far and used no compiler
> > optimizations at all.
> > I use the uwb-mode, preprocessing, denoising and echo cancellation.
> > I've noticed that speex consumes a lot of cpu resources. When I run this
> on
> > a Celeron 2,6GHz I have to disable EC in order to not overload the cpu.
> Am I
> > correct to assume that there are massive floating point calculations
> > happening?
> > I did a quick profile with CodeAnalyst and identified the most expensive
> > functions as (in order):
> > CPU Clocks, Function
> > 4657, kiss_fft_stride
> > 4456, speex_echo_cancellation
> > 2494, split_cb_search_shape_sign
> > 1490, fir_mem16
> > 1419, speex_preprocess_run
> > I'm looking for advise on how to boost the performance with as little
> code
> > rewrite as possible. The architecture for release build will be SSE/SSE2
> > capable.
> > 1) Compiler optimizations: Recommended options?
> > 2) SIMD. Is Speex written to take advantage of SIMD architectures? What
> must
> > I do to take advantage of this?
> > --
> > Greger Burman
>
>
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