Project Stage 3: Optimization
Introduction This is a report for the project stage 3, optimization. Before you read this post, it is vital to read stage 1 (compile and benchmark) and stage 2 reports (profiling under Aarch64 and x86_64 architecture ) because those are the previous steps for this report. If the results images are not shown on the reports, this is the additional post for this blog which contains the links for each result. The Project I Selected: Butteraugli The Butteraugli is the project Google created. It estimates the psychovisual similarity of two images. The detailed information about this project is described on the Google Opensource website about the Butteraugli . The source code for this project is located here: GitHub - Butteraugli . Discover the Points of the Optimization In stage 2, the results of the profiling show that butteraugli::Convolution is the function that takes the most of the time for compiling. Also, the command perf discovers 'ldr' is the code th...